Keywords: Livre singulier et utile... de geometrie. -and- Raison d'architecture antique ... traduit d'Espagnol. - Upper cover (Davis367).jpg Style Armorial Panel design Cornerpiece made of small tools Floral; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt and gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Tooled in blind; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Bound in Paris by Etienne Roffet for Francois I c 1542 Traces of 2 pairs of ties Edges gilt and gauffered with curving lines and decorative pattern Provenance Le Comet de Ligherolles book plate of Robert Hoe Lardanchet catalogue 45 1951 866 An interlacing rectangle and lozenge and arabesque tooling arms of Francis I salamander crowned F's and fleur-de-lys by the binder of the Estienne Bible object history Text 1542; Paris; Francis I King of France 1494-1547 object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 p46 49 See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 p 42 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000003950 ImageId ImageId 41580 Copyright BL Livre singulier et utile de geometrie and Raison d'architecture antique traduit d'Espagnol Uploaded with GWToolset Livre singulier et utile de geometrie and Raison d'architecture antique traduit d'Espagnol - Upper cover Davis367 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6095_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |