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The binding shown above is found in the Catalogue de vente aux enchères/Livres précieux provenant de la Bibliothèque Louis Cartier-Hotel Drouot- 1et 2 mars 1962, plate XVIII, No. 148,
I have included here the item description. We see the name Valentine has been added to the decoration at some latter point Valentine Delessert "son prénom doré sur les plats supérieurs" (click here to see another example) Click here to learn more about Valentine. It is interesting that Jubert signed at least two bindings in 1781 the same date as this Perrault binding, we shall look at these 1781 examples to see if we can find a pattern that will help to establish chronological similarities and or variability in Jubert's decorations. |
| In Comparative Diagram 2, we see Jubert's jj-4 'caged bird' imprint that occures in all the 1781 examples. It is found in Barber's Tool catalogue as CB 5, which he 'ascribes' to N.-D. Derome, aka Derome le jeune. We can say with some degree of confidence that Derome never used the tool CB 5. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, I present my 2009 catalogue of Jean Pierre Jubert's commonly found imprints. I list 4 'caged bird' examples. The second shown, jj-4-2 is perhaps a Derome tool, as yet I remain undecided. The third example, jj-4-3 is his smallest, and jj-4-4 his largest that compares with Dubuisson's largest bird pd-4-3. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, I assemble the Jubert bindings so far discovered (in 2009) and include small tool icons to indicate the tools that might actually be Derome tools used by Jubert. These are solid proof that Jubert not only worked for Derome but that he also used some of Derome's tools in his decorations. |
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In Comparative Diagram 5, we can see that Dubuisson used a very similar (nearly identical) corner tool before Jubert, however Dubuisson rarely used this as a corner tool, where as Jubert seems to have preferred this tool in the 1781 signature period. The Dubuisson example is found in Bibliothèque Raphaël Esmérian,
Deuxième partie : Reliures de quelques ateliers du XVIIe. Livres en divers genres des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. 1973. Raphaël Esmérian, writing in the early 70's was one of the first to tackle the study of the imprint models of various famous binders and put together Comparative Diagrams. A serious researcher who went as far as having hand drawn copies of various imprints made, He however stopped short of cataloguing imprints with identifying numbers. He, like many other experts who proceeded him and even those who followed him, relied heavily on the likes of Louis-Marie Michon and subsequetly was unable to identify the tools of Dubuisson. In this example, shown in Comparative Diagram 5, (No. 121) he attributed it to Derome le jeune, when in fact it is pure Dubuisson. It is one of the few examples where we see Dubuisson using pd-17 as a corner tool as well as pd-5 in the same central position that Juburt employed it decades later. The Dubuisson example is possibly one of his early dentelles (see this), and I would think it doubtful that Jubert ever saw this binding, on the other hand Derome's dentelles copied closely the Dubuisson dentelles as well as the tools that made them. I speculate then that Jubert followed some of Derome's dentelle designs from the early 70's. It is a story that we may never know, or perhaps a documentalist will get lucky and find Jubert's autobiography. |
| In Comparative Diagram 6, we see a distinct difference in the Jubert imprint of this type as opposed to the Dubuisson original that has inner and outer framework. In my early catalogue of Derome le jeune imprints I do not show a Type 17, this makes me think that it was not one of his common tools. However I decided to search for examples and finally found a Derome binding decorated with them (see this). How I ever forgot this binding I will never know as I devoted a lot of pages to the history of it. Suite d'estampes gravées par Madame la marquise de Pompadour d'après les pierres gravées de Guay, graveur du Roy (see this) |
| In Comparative Diagram 7 and 8, I tackle a problem that has been bothering me for years. To the casual observer these imprints dj-5 and jj-5 look identical. We must wonder if they derive from the same Derome tool, and if so, how did it get to be a permanent tool in Jubert's box? It seemed somehow unlikely and so I try again to see if they are in fact the same, even with all these diagrams we cannot say for sure if they are in fact imprints from the same tool. This problem would be quickly solved with higher resolution scans (2400 dpi and up). *Note: this is not the only Derome tool that Jubert has 'borrowed'. |
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