Keywords: -A blank album- - Upper cover (c152k5).jpg Style Pictorial; Caption Upper cover; Colour Tan; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold Drawing - pen ink; Cover Material Calf Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a contemporary calf binding tooled in gold and blind signed by Chapron With pen and ink drawings on both covers See Julien Flety Dictionnaire des reliures francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 Macchi states; first half century Paris bound by Chapron Two Chapron at least are known 1 this binder of distinction whose only addresss seems to have been rue de Wertinghen 10 Abbaye St Germain started work possibly about 1800 and continued certainly till 1812 and possibly later He at first co-operated with Alexandre de Beauvais and this association certainly continued till 1808 see S de Ricci French signed bindings III 230 By 1809 however a split had evidently occurred and de Beauvais had his own label at rue de l'Observance7 see S de Ricci French signed bindings III 234 which he continued to use till at least 1818 Chapron apparently did not issue a label of his own after parting company with de Beauvais contenting himself erasing the latter's name in ink see S de Ricci French signed bindings III 231-233 ; 2 V Chapron appears in the Almanachs first at Seine 30 in 1826 and later at Quai Conti 5 in 1842-1847 Another Chpron is known C Ramsden French bookbinders p 51 object history Text c1840; s l ; 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 Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire Brussells 2000 n87 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000000244 ImageId ImageId 39727 Copyright BL A blank album Uploaded with GWToolset A blank album - Upper cover c152k5 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4282_3 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |