| The marbled endpapers inside this 1747 Quinzaine probably looked much better in 1747, now faded and worn, but it is important to document them as they are not the usual comb variety, this appearing to be more like the papier tourniquet of Isabelle de Conihoet et Pascal Ract-Madoux "Relieurs français du 17ème, chefs d'oeuvre du musée Condé:" 2002, page 80. Their papier tourniquet example would have been made some 50 years earlier but probably the manufacturing process continued with little change. |
| The length of the inner dentelle roulette was not easy to pin down, partially due to the fact that it is quite wide and only part of it is exposed in both the front and back. Fortunately I have on hand a 1754 Douceur with the same roulette inner dentelle and after looking at these examples long enough I spotted something that would help me align the examples, not a flaw but a difference in the height and shape of the upper blossom. Armed with this I eventually found a flaw that is shown in Comparative Diagram 3, marked with the green letter 'a' namely a vertical cut in the leafy arms separating the units. Thus we are able to measure the length of the roulette that measures 10.88 cm. |
| We can get some idea of the entire design of this roulette from a small section that exposes more of the roulette. |
| I was just checking the Douceur bindings that we have examined previously, looking for a roulette that matches and came across this 1745 Tasso (click here to see it). This large binding has some common imprints with our 1747 Quinzaine, such as the palette shown in Comparative Diagram 4. I suspect that the inner dentelle in this Tasso is the same as our 1747 example, and if so this section of the roulette shown here, reveals that it is even wider than I thought. |
| In Comparative Diagram 5, we see a 1745 Tasso spine panel compared with selected imprints from our 1747 Quinzaine. Below I show show high resolution scans of various 1747 specimens, note that the d-1 examples were cut and pasted from various parts of the dentelle yet all exhibited this same angle so I have shown them this way, I suppose that they are ment to be at this angle. |
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