Keywords: Les characteres des Passions vol III - Upper cover (Davis523).jpg Style Armorial Pointille comprising dots Presentation Cornerpiece made of small tools; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Marin Cureau de la Chambre 1594 -1669 had his text bound up as presentation bindings beginning in 1645 70 examples survive 3 different workshops were involved the principal being patronized by Seguier's bookseller Rocolet After Rocolet's death Cureau patronised 3 different workshops in the years 1662 1664 1665 called A B C which imitated the previous decoration Musée Condé Château de Chantilly Reliures francaises du XVIIe siècle p 60 n 24 Marin Cureau de La Chambre Les Charactères des passions Dernier Volume Paris Jacques d'Allin 1662 A very similar example is kept in the Condé Museum Chantilly Musée Condé Château de Chantilly Reliures francaises du XVIIe siècle p 58 n 23 Marin Cureau de La Chambre Les Charactères des passions volume III De la haine et de la douleur Paris Pierre Rocolet 1659 For a similar example bound for Fouquet Librairie Sourget Chartres Manuscrits et livres précieux De la Renaissance au Cubisme p 232-233 n 89 on La Chambre L'art de connoistre les hommes Paris P Rocolet 1659 Binding reproduced by M Foot Les reliures françaises fig 4 See I de Conihout Les reliures de Marin Cureau de la Chambre et l'atelier Rocolet p 235-258 too object history Text 1659; Paris; Fouquet Nicolas Marquis of Belle Isle 1615-80 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 020-000004222 ImageId ImageId 41716 Copyright BL Les characteres des Passions vol III Uploaded with GWToolset Les characteres des Passions vol III - Upper cover Davis523 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6232_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |