Keywords: Les Rosecroix - Upper cover (c150k15).jpg Style Frame Lettered cover eg intitals titles; Caption Upper cover; Colour Green; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc M D Chausse is tooled in gold on upper cover Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings Signed by Tessier Macchi states end century- XIX th first century Paris bound by Tessier Different binders are known under this name 1 N Tessier or Teissier He succeeded J -C H Lemonnier about 1780 and used the former's label with appropriate alterations He further varied his label all through vicissitudes of the Revolution the Empire and the Restoration with remarkable cynicism and apparently undisturbed success Gruel L Manuel bibliographique 1905 p 164 He does not figure in the 1797-1798 Almanach but thereafter consistently between 1803-1843 It is hard to believe it was the same individual but the firm went on in rue La Harpe The first address in 1780 was n 165 then in 1803 n 132 and from 1890 ownwards to 1843 at n 45 He is specialist in large bindings P Culot Relieurs et reliures 1995 p 555-556; J Fléty Dictionnaire p 167 ; 2 René Tessier or Teissier Paris He worked at Mont -St Hilaire 10 1803 n 6 1815 ; Cloître-St Benoît 1821 ; 3 Tessier Aîné at S Dominique 17 in 1843-1847; 4 Tessier He appears at Sept-Voies 7 in 1843 C Ramsden French Bookbinders p 200 object history Text 1807; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire Brussells 2000 Julien Flety Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000000650 ImageId ImageId 39930 Copyright BL Les Rosecroix Uploaded with GWToolset Les Rosecroix - Upper cover c150k15 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4431_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |