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| Keywords: Elegies de Properce - Upper cover (c154a4).jpg Style Frame Plain; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Sprinkled; Cover Material Calf Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings Macchi states; first half century Dijon bound by François Ambroise Mairet Born December 7 th 1786 was first employed by the court of Appeal and then became a binder and paper-dealer at rue Rameau and subsequently from 1819-21 at rue Condé 38 He probably started to bind about 1806 and his master piece was made in 1812 He left Dijon in 1821 and set up as paper-manufacturer at Fontenoy near Montbard He moved to another paper factory in Brittany about 1830 There is a manuscript biography of him by L B Baudot of Dijon continuing Papillon Bibliothèque des auteurs de Bourgogne Dijon Ms 2063 p 1081-1082 Long articles regarding him can be found in E Thoinan Biographie p 345 and in H Beraldi's Reliure He published among other works an Essai sur la reliure et le blanchissement des livres in 1824 much of which was used by Lenormand and embodied in the Roret Manuels of Binding His master piece is believed to have been the binding on the 3- volume Didot Racine of 1801 in blue marbled calf imitating lapis-lazuli and veined with gold It was given by the binder to the Dijon Library where it is still preserved Other fine examples of his works are described and illustrated in Morgan Schiff collection S de Ricci French signed bindings II 184 185 Maggs Bros Ltd Catalogue 661 27 and 51 H Béraldi La reliure pl 3 Though his talent was much disputed at the time and his bindings are often inappropriate to the works they cover he is probably the greatest binder in the use of classical motifs and his work has much charm and delicacy C Ramsden French Bookbinders p 133-134 object history Text 16c; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Julien Flety Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000001168 ImageId ImageId 40189 Copyright BL Elegies de Properce Uploaded with GWToolset Elegies de Properce - Upper cover c154a4 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4767_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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