Keywords: Histoire des Guerres - Upper cover (Davis431).jpg Style Centre and cornerpiece; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown Black Red; Edge Gilt Gilt and gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Onlaid; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc With the ink ms note of Antoine-Augustin Renouard 1765-1853 and the bookplates of Courtland F Bishop Lucius Wilmerding object history Text 1568; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery M M Foot Henry Davis Gift Vol III p147 For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 Macchi states; c 1570 Paris Similar cornerpieces are present on a French Renaissance binding reproduced by M von Arnim Einbandkunst n 57 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004076 ImageId ImageId 41643 Copyright BL Histoire des Guerres Uploaded with GWToolset Histoire des Guerres - Upper cover Davis431 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6158_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |