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| Shelfmark |
c155h11 |
| Held By |
BL |
| Country |
France |
| Period |
19c |
| Cover Material |
Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) |
| Decorative Technique |
Tooled in blind; Tooled in gold; Photograph |
| Style |
Panel design |
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| BookBinder |
Maynard, A |
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| Author |
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| Title |
Vies des Saints nouvellements ecrites par une reunion d'ecclesiastiques et d'ecrivains catholiques sous la direction religieuse du Comite nomme par l'Archeveque de Paris. |
| Place of Publication |
Paris |
| Date of Publication |
1846 |
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| Notes |
Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings. Design incorporates daguerreotype. A positive photographic portrait printed on glass has been set in the front cover. Macchi states; second quarter century, Paris, bound by Maynard. A deaf and dumb binder, a sample of whose work (c.1844) is illustrated in Maggs Bros. Ltd., Catalogue 661, 222. He was possibly a pupil of Lesne, who taught binding at the Deaf and Dumb Institute towards the end of his life (C. Ramsden, French bookbinders, p.138). |
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