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| Keywords: La Testudine, etc - Upper cover (c67a20).jpg Style Armorial; Caption Upper cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Painted; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc With the arms of Cardinal Giacomo Rospigliosi stamped on the binding Rome The book plate of Thomas J Woodward is on the upper pastedown An upper free endleaf with endpapers has been cut out and is now missing only a stub remains The Rome binding is from the the 'Rospigliosi bindery' formerly known under that name in recognition of its main patron Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi but subsequently identified by Josè Ruysschaert as being the workshop of Gregorio and Giovanni Andreoli Active from around 1630 it was one of the busiest and most celebrated Roman shops of the seventeenth century Its patrons included Alexander VII who named Gregorio 'Vatican Binder for life' and several other popes along with noble families such as the Medici and Borghese lot 325 Bonhams London Knightsbridge The Library of the late Hugh Selbourne M D Part One 25 Mar 2015 object history Text 1669; Rome; Rospigliosi Cardinal Giacomo 1628-1684 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Italy place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol I London 1978 Appendix p 333-336 p 335 n 57 A Hobson French and Italian Collectors pp xli-xlii 152-155; Sten G Lindberg Queen Christina Bindings Analecta Reginensia I Queen Christina of Sweden Documents and Studies ed M von Platen Stockholm 1966 pp 199-225; Piccarda Quilici La Legatoria Romana dal Rinascimento al Barocco and Jose Ruysschaert Le Legature Romane della Regina Cristina in Legatura Romana Barocca 1565-1700 Rome 1991 Folger 12 11 Folger Shakespeare Library Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library New York 1992 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002434 ImageId ImageId 40822 Copyright BL La Testudine etc Uploaded with GWToolset La Testudine etc - Upper cover c67a20 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5314_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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