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Keywords: Opera omnia - Upper cover (Davis381).jpg Style Centre and cornerpiece Semis background of small tools; Caption Upper cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc May be by Claude Picques c 1550 Paris centre and cornerpiece object history Text 1518/19; Venice; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol III p 108-9 For a similar corner tool and central panel-stamp see J R Abbey Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings 21-23 June 1965 p 213 215 n 552 on Plautus Comoediae Basle J Hervgius 1538 - C 20 c 15 C 46 c 14 C 48 c 2 Davis 394; for similar hanging motifs Davis 385 An identical cover appears in Précieux livres anciens Lundi 13 mai 1985 n 159 on Plato Le premier second et dixième livre de Justice ou de la République de Platon Paris Sébastien Nyvelle 1555 From the Colbert Ballesden Renouard Vernon and Holford collections British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003978 ImageId ImageId 41594 Copyright BL Opera omnia Uploaded with GWToolset Opera omnia - Upper cover Davis381 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6109_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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