Keywords: Opera omnia - Upper cover (Davis522).jpg Style Armorial Dated Lettered cover eg intitals titles Panel design Wreath; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Sheep My be sheep May be prize binding Similar examples are reproduced in L Gruel Manuel historique 1905 p 147 with the inscription EX DONO/D ANTHONII DRVOT/1653 Christie's Christie's London The Library p 117 n 219 and Y Devaux Y Devaux L'univers p 469 The Troyes and Chalon sur Saône France have respectively one executed for Antoine Drvot in 1654 L Morel -Payen Les plus beaux Manuscrits p 178 n 50 pl XLVIII on text Quinti Curtii Historiae Alexandri magni libri X no place 1649 and three volumes Claude Tisserand 1650; Claude Tapin 1652 and 1655 produced by the same workshop Patrimoine des Bibliothèques de France p 70 Even the Milan State Library owns a similar volume Gilberto Ionino Poematum libri II Lyon Claude du Four 1637 pressmark 25 13 B 12 EX DONO DOM / ANTHONII DRVOT/1647 Another example provided with the EX DONO D CLAVDII TISSERAND 1652 inscription is reproduced in La reliure ancienne et moderne pl 93 object history Text 1646; Geneva; Druot Chalon sur Saone College object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Chris Coppens Four centuries of prize books in Eloquent Witnesses ed Mirjam Foot London 2004 pl 2 Meurgey and Armand-Caillat 'Essai d'un catalogue des livres offerts en prix par le college de Chalon sure Saone' in Memoires de la Societe d'archeologie de Chalon sure Saone xxiv 1930-31 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004220 ImageId ImageId 41715 Copyright BL Opera omnia Uploaded with GWToolset Opera omnia - Upper cover Davis522 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6231_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |