| Laurent Coulet of La librairie Laurent Coulet (click here to visit his Library) has been so kind as to send us a much better photo of the 1770 Durand binding that we looked at on the previous page. Here at last we can actually see the signature of Antoine Durand. |
| It is great pleasure for me to be able to show you this ultra rare example of Durand's signature, irrefutable proof that he created this masterpiece. Where ever he is now he will certainly be pleased to know that the whole world can now see it and that his work has not been lost and forgotten some centuries after his passing. Below I have extracted some of the imprints from this binding, these may lead us to discover yet more of Durand's bindings. A quick search through Barber's tool catalogue has not turned up any of these imprints while numerous models of similar looking tools such as ad-10, ad-12-3 and ad-33pair-3 can be found, none are an exact match with the Durand imprints shown in Comparative Diagram 1, indicating that Barber never came across a binding by Durand. |
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| Even experts are sometimes wrong, before you spend thousands on a book, please do your own research! Just because I say a certain binding can be attributed to le Maitre isn't any kind of guarantee, don't take my word for it, go a step further and get your own proof. In these pages I have provided you with a way of doing just that. |
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