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Keywords: Oeuvres completes - Upper cover (c154b2).jpg Style Armorial; Caption Upper cover; Colour Blue; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in gold Blocked in blind; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a contemporary gold-tooled blue morocco binding signed by Purgold With the arms of the Coventry family stamped on the covers See Julien Flety Dictionnaire des reliures francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 Macchi states; first half century Paris bound by L G Purgold Little seems to be known of this great figure in Romantic binding who died in his heyday in 1829 He was born in Darmstadt probably in 1784 He established himself in 1810 He is first mentioned in the Almanachs in 1816 at Dauphine 35 received a Medal of Honour in 1818; moved to Cassette 18 in 1821 and apparently after 1826 to rue du Roule 15 He was apparently associated with Hering from about 1820 till 1825 His wife born Anne Thérèse Langlois carried on bookbinding marrying Antoine Bauzonnet gilder in the workshop since 1820 Bibliotheca Wittockiana Relieurs et reliures 1995 p 542-543; J Fléty Dictionnaire p 148; C Ramsden French bookbinders p 166-167 object history Text 16c; Paris; Coventry family object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Paul Culot Reliures et reliures decorees en France a l'epoque romantique Bruxelles 1995 Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire Brussells 2000 Julien Flety Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 Bibliotheca Wittockiana Relieurs et reliures 1995 p 542-543; C Ramsden French bookbinders p 166-167 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000001174 ImageId ImageId 40192 Copyright BL Oeuvres completes Uploaded with GWToolset Oeuvres completes - Upper cover c154b2 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4770_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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