Bookbinding, citron morocco, Paris, 1563
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1563
SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. L. Annei Senecae Cordubensis Tragoediae septem. Nunc primum quam diligentissimè ex variorum codicum collatione, castigatae. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef, 1563 This binding is very similar to Howard Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York 1971), no. 44, a Prudentius volume also printed in Paris by Marnef, in 1562.
Nixon does not name the workshop, but describes it as "a Paris shop at which in the mid-1560s bindings were produce for Grolier, Mahieu, De Thou and Charles IX among others" (p.173). 16mo (120 x 80 mm). Roman and italic type, 28 lines plus headline.Collation: A-Z8 Aa-Ee8: 224 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials. slight browning, richly gilt and tooled to a pre-fanfare pattern of entrelacs and azured tools, flat spine tooled to a continuous pattern of similar decoration, incorporating the title in 2 lines, gilt edges. In a modern collector's box. Acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. References: USTC 139333
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- 120 x 80 mm; 124 x 86 mm
Identification
- Source note
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- Candidate id
- inv-201934725
- Auction house
- Sotheby's
- Listing object ID
- 201934725
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