| Above I show the back cover without restoration, we are now going to look at what I consider for me, discoveries in the gold tooled imprints that derive from Jean-Pierre Jubert's tools. It is fortunate indeed that some of these very same imprints are found on bindings that can found in the online binders collection of the Bibliotheque national de France. These bindings have been assessed in part by the BnF experts to have derived from the workshop of Derome le jeune, and have been attributed to Derome due to the fact that Derome's ticket is found inside certain volumes. I have shown in the past that none of 6 bindings chosen as representing the work of Derome le jeune were in fact decorated by Derome, but were actually decorated by artists who he hired to do the work, and executed mainly with their own tools. Therefore these 6 bindings are in no way representative of the work of Derome. The first I want to point out is one of 4 identical volumes (BnF, RLR, RES-G-370 (1-4)) that were gold tooled by Jubert with his own tools (click here to see it) as were are going to prove here as the very same tools are found on our eBay example. |
| In Comparative Diagram 1, we can see several imprints that are found in both examples. It is interesting to note that the BnF binding has a Derome ticket inside that has been hand dated 1779, the fact that many of the same tools have been used to decorate both bindings might also suggest a similar date for the eBay binding, however if Jubert was working for Derome up to that time, the eBay binding could be significantly older as there is no Derome ticket inside, this binding was possibly executed by Jubert after he established his own workshop. |
| In Comparative Diagram 2, I show a pair of what Barber has referred to as Ornamented scrolls, I have detailed some these tools on another page (click here to see this) however I somehow managed to over look these examples that I perhaps thought were jj-33-4. In size these are not as large as jj-33-4 but will anyway have to be catalogued as jj-33-5. |
| Before we dive into the next diagram I want to mention that Gosselin was also working for Derome, I came across this discovery while thumbing through the work of Barber who unfortunately also fell into the trap of thinking that bindings that contained Derome's ticket were necessarily decorated by Derome, thus Barber attibuted the work and tools of Gosselin to Derome. In the imprints of our eBay binding we find something even more puzzeling, Jubert and Gosselin employed almost identical tools. When I first discovered and catalogued the imprint jj-10 shown in Comparative Diagram 3, I did not think that the satellite dots with crosses were part of the tool, however here with 4 clear examples there can be no doubt of this fact, and so I need to update my type model of this imprint. While somewhere in the past I had catalogued a very similar Gosselin tool with the satellite dots. Now looking at the supposed Derome bindings of the BnF where we discover that the first two examples were actually decorated by Gosselin, we find this same imprint. I show these in Comparative Diagram 3, it is rather odd that these tools were made in such an identical fashion... why? |
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