Keywords: Recueil de diverses pieces curieuses de ce temps. - Upper cover (c150f16).jpg Style Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a mid-19th century reddish-brown morocco binding signed by Corfmat See Julien Flety Dictionnaire des reliures francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 Macchi states; XIX th second quarter century Paris bound by Corfmat According to the directories J Corfmat first appears at St Jacques 110 in 1840 where he continued till 1843 He was probably active for considerably longer and a binder of the same name appears at St Jacques 124 in 1849 His favourite decoration is à la rocaille Further there are number of other binders of the same name and approximate period whom it is difficult to place exactly Thus there is a second Corfmat in the 1842 Almanach at Galande 37; an E Corfmat Jeune at St Sévérin 16 in 1847-1849 and yet another at Zacharie 9 in 1849 P Culot Relieurs et reliures 1995 p 486; J Fléty Dictionnaire p 47 Corfinat ; C Ramsden French bookbinders p 57 226 object history Text 1664; Cologne; Unspecified 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 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 020-000001926 ImageId ImageId 40568 Copyright BL Recueil de diverses pieces curieuses de ce temps Uploaded with GWToolset Recueil de diverses pieces curieuses de ce temps - Upper cover c150f16 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5175_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |