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Title : Gouverneurs lieutenans de Roy prevôts des marchands echevins procureurs avocats du Roy greffiers receveurs conseillers et quartiniers de la Ville de Paris gravées par Beaumont graveur ord.re de la ville Publisher : [Paris, entre 1735 et 1789] Publication date : 1735-1789 Contributor : Turgot, Michel Étienne (1690-1751). Commanditaire du contenu Contributor : Beaumont, Pierre-François (1719?-1769?). Graveur Relationship : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb300730565 Format : [1]-117 [i. e. 118] f. de pl. dont 4 dépl. ; in-folio Rights : Public domain Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k1510208n Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arsenal, RESERVE FOL-H-3988 Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France Date of online availability : 15/02/2017 Note(s) : Ouvrage comportant un état des officiers de la ville de Paris, avec leurs armes gravées dans des écus avec légendes, et divisé en différentes sections. - La pl. 6 porte dans un cartouche au bas : "Ce livre a été fait de la prevôté de messire Michel Etienne Turgot... en l'année 1735". - Certains exemplaires ont été enrichis avec des écus et légendes collés à la pièce sur les écus vierges des pl. gravées existantes et parfois sur des pl. ajoutées ; certaines pl. ajoutées sont restées vierges ; dans certains exemplaires, quelques pl. ont été gravées de nouveau à une date ultérieure (pl. 82, 83, 105, 117). - 1 f. de pl. non numérotée entre les f. 105 et 106. - Titre-frontispice gravé sur cuivre. - Ouvrage entièrement gravé sur cuivre par Pierre-François Beaumont Cossé-Brissac, Louis-Hercule-Timoléon (1734-1792 ; duc de). Ancien possesseur pour l'ex. RESERVE FOL-H-3988 |
| This binding can be found online with Gallica digital reproductions BnF (click here to see it). As I said on the previous page I went into an state of ecstatic shock when i saw this binding by Jean-Baptiste Gosselin, it looks so much like the Missale Romanum that we have thoroughly described on previous pages (click here to see it) We know that the Missale Romanum was probably made by Pierre Delorme, I guessed around 1770 on the basis of another binding by Delorme where we see the use of the same corner plaque (click here to see it). However I could not be sure of this date and looked for some way to pin it down, I was hoping that the marbled end papers might help. |
| In Comparative Diagram 2 we see that there are indeed differences in these SLBs that result from a slightly different unit design, we can see however where these units do link together, most often it is barely visible. I have chosen to show here some more obvious joins. Looking closely at the Gosselin imprints it seems as though this is not a newly made tool but rather one that has seen considerable use, this is a conundrum as I have not discovered any other bindings that have scrolling leaf borders that have been fashioned with this particular tool. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3. we compare Gosselin's Scrolling Leaf Border Unit with that of Delorme, these tools were very similar in size however the border that they produced is quite different. Gosselin's border is a tightly knit affair while Delorme's is spacious and open, producing a much lighter and less oppressively luxuriant decor. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we see the endpapers of this 1772 Gosselin armorial compared with the Missale Roman endpapers of Delorme. The method of making these papers with large combs appears to be very similar, however the artist has remained fairly conservative on one hand and gone on a wild trip in the other. Deciding whether these two papers are contemporaneous will need more research, at least we now know that these papers were still the fashion for large bindings destined for elite clients, (click here to see Derome's endpapers from a slightly earlier period (1769). These are indeed very similar to Gosselin's papers. I would not rule out the possibility that these are actually Derome's papers and that this is another binding that Gosselin produced for Derome. All this might lead us to speculate that Delormes endpapers may be from an even later date. |
| In Comparative Diagram 5, we see this Gosselin roulette compared with Barber's ROLL 80 and it is starting to look like Gosselin used this roulette quite often, the example that I show here at the top of the diagram is from this 1772 Armorial and it is slightly longer than Barber's type model for this roulette. The Armorial example shown here was downloaded at 400dpi from Gallica and I am quite sure that it is accurate. |
| In Comparative Diagram 6, I wanted to show how Gosselin has used this large pair if scrolling leafs to decorated the corners of the spine panels. This exotic corner decoration is a sure sign of a Gosselin binding. |
| In Comparative Diagram 7 we see that Barber has identified the Gosselin pair gos-70 as FR 90, and that Jubert has an almost identical pair of tools that Barber did not record. |
| In Comparative Diagram 8, I have revamped an old diagram that shows just how much similarity there is in the tools of these two binders, a nightmare for people who used rubbings to try to identify tools, some still do. On the next page I am going to tackle the similarities between Gosselin's tools and those of Delorme. |
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