Keywords: - Upper cover (c19b12).jpg Style Armorial Fanfare; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Unspecified XVI th last quarter not later than 1587 Paris with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou 1553-1617 as bachelor à la fanfare binding see Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of bookbindings p 49 pl LX on Herodotus Historia Gr Paris 1570 owned by Eton College; W Y Fletcher Bookbinding in England and in France pl III on Valerii maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX Anvertpiae 1574; H B Wheatley Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannnique p 86-87 pl XXXIX on Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX Antverpiae ex officina Christophori Plantini 1574 Owned one of the most famous libraries of his time whose catalogue printed in 1679 Three coat-of- arms when he was bachelor with his first wife Marie de Barbançon married in 1587 and in 1601 with Gasparde de La Chastre Different his bindings decorations fillet borders alla greca à l'ancienne aldine type à la fanfare about 20 according to G D Hobson Les reliures à la fanfare p 76 and au semé object history Text 16c; Unspecified; Thou Jacques Auguste de 1553-1617 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 020-000006180 ImageId ImageId 42695 Copyright BL Unspecified Uploaded with GWToolset - Upper cover c19b12 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/7374_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |