Keywords: Urbis Romae topographia-- - Upper cover (c132i61).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork Mottoes; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Marbled; Cover Material Calf This features the Cupid's Bow tool for which this binder was named See Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier London 1965 Macchi states; c 1550 Paris bound by the Cupid's Bow binder G D Hobson Maioli Canevari and others p 43 n 3 pl 48; H M Nixon Bookbindings p 59 n 112 pl CVI Another example of this kind is reproduced in M von Arnim Einbandkunst n 39 Petrus Crinitus De poetis latinis Florence Giunta 1502 See A Hobson Renaissance book collecting Appendix I Grolier's bindings classified by workshop pp 223-229 V France 1547-1565 a Cupid's Bow Binder p 228 object history Text 1544; Rome; Grolier Jean 1479-1565 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002896 ImageId ImageId 41053 Copyright BL Urbis Romae topographia Uploaded with GWToolset Urbis Romae topographia - Upper cover c132i61 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5547_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |