Keywords: L. C-lii Lactantii Firmiani Divinar-u Institution-u Lib. VII. - Lower cover (c69bb18).jpg Style Armorial Repeated motifs All over design; Caption Lower cover; Colour Red; Edge Gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Macchi states; 133 examples are recorded 5 of which are held at the Musée Condé Chantilly France The colour of the leather varies depending on the subject Theology philosphy law and history were bound in red morocco medicine and botany in citron literature in olive With their small size in 12mo they very likely represent a travelling library mostly with a humanistic content One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic book-bindings p 61 on Officium beatae Mariae Virginis Paris Ioann Mettayer P L'Huiller 1597; Victoria and Albert Museum London A picture book of bookbindings part II pl I c 1572 shelfmark L2240-1913 This decoration was adopted again in France and England in the form of the retropective style or pastiche by the workshops Thibaron-Joly 1863-75 and Charles Lewis Barber - Rogers active from 1786 until 1836 See L Bouland Livres aux armes de Pierre Duodo p 66-80; Breslauer M Inc Catalogue 110 p 304-305 n 195; W Y Fletcher Bookbinding in England and in France p 33 fig 11 on C Jul Caesaris Commentarii Paris 1564; M Foot History of bookbinding as a mirror of society fig 71; La collection Dutuit p 147 n 385 on L Annaei Senecae cordubensis Tragoediae Lugduni apud Antonium de Harsy 1589; H B Wheatley Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannnique p 80-81 pl XXXVI on Cl Claudianus Theod Pulmanni Craneburgii diligentia fide restitutus Antverpiae officina Plantiniana 1591 object history Text 1587; Lyons; Duodo Pietro 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 020-000006662 ImageId ImageId 42936 Copyright BL L C lii Lactantii Firmiani Divinar u Institution u Lib VII Uploaded with GWToolset L C lii Lactantii Firmiani Divinar u Institution u Lib VII - Lower cover c69bb18 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4080_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |