| I found this signed binding by Jubert in the famous catalogue One Hundred and Seventy Six Historic and Artistic Book-Bindings Dating from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time pictured by etchings artoypes and lithographs after the originals selected from the library of Robert Hoe. Dodd, Mead, N.Y. 1895. One of 200 copies. 2 vols. Folio, 179 plates of bindings some in color. This entire catalogue can be viewed at Hathitrust (click here to see it) I only just recently revisited this catalogue hoping to find Dubuisson bindings, somehow I had missed completely this binding by Jubert. Below I show Robert Hoe's notes for this binding, and yes they actually look this rough. There are two signed bindings in this catalogue the first I have documented on another page from a Rahir reproduction which is a very high quality heliogravure. It is surprising then that Hoe has misspelled Juberts name here, and he adds that Jubert was probably the guilder! Hoe attributed to Padeloup a great many bindings in this catalogue, and then he says as a side note, that Jubert is the guilder? One wonders what is going on here. |
| Now this brings me back to Thoinan's page about Jubert, I have shown this page before and mentioned the fact that he tells us of a signed Jubert binding with this title, here I am amazed to actually find this very binding. |
| A wonderful friend has sent me a high resolution scan of a rare original Hoe plate of this binding (No. 101). This reproduction is amazingly sharp even at high resolution and thus must be a heliogravure as well. In Comparative Diagram 1, we see that Jubert's signature is the same but even better in the Hoe example (A). |
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(A) - LIVRE D'EGLISE LATIN-FRANÇOIS, suivant le bréviaire et le missel de Paris,
... Paris, 1771-1778. Rahir 143 Bulletin mensuel info (B) - L' Ordinaire de la Messe et les Vêpres (C) - L' Ordinaire de la Messe et les Vêpres (D) - CONTES DES FÉES, Par Ch. Perrault, de l'Académie Françoise 1781 Rahir 186 Derome ticket 186 info (E) - dentelle pour Marie-Antoinette, reine de France 1778-1780 BnF RES-V-3049 |
| In Comparative Diagram 2, I have assembled some examples of one of Jubert's favorite fleuron, it can be found on most of his bindings and when you see it, you know that this is a Jubert and not a Derome no matter who's ticket is inside. Although a few clever sods have roughly copied this tool so you have to be on your toes, which is part of the reason to show these examples. Note list example (A) has a title of "LIVRE D'EGLISE" this is the same title that we see in the title label of the Hoe binding shown here, same title but different book. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, we see a rather unusual fleuron that was not often used, in fact my model of this is missing the stem at the bottom. The great thing about working with this high resolution copy is that we can actually see clearly the imprints, and correct our TYPE models. This strange fleuron stands out a mile, and is a precise indicator that will help you identify Jubert bindings, such as the binding shown below , item 1554 from Rahir's catalogue |
| The binding shown above is No. 1554 from the auction catalogue La bibliothèque de feu Édouard Rahir, ancien libraire Paris : Francisque Lefrançois, libraire-expert, 1930-1938. Cinquième partie : Livres anciens des XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles : Belles reliures anciennes Paris 1937. |
| The posthumous sales of the private library of the great bookseller Édouard Rahir. Rahir had been apprenticed, aged sixteen, at Morgand and Fatout, and after Morgand's death in 1898 he carried on the business, as "Édouard Rahir et Cie", supported by the Rothschild bank (Rahir had paid out the Rothschilds by 1903). Rahir's stock at the time of his retirement was sold anonymously in 1927-1929, and on 7 May 1930 began the series of six sales of his personal library, as "La Bibliothèque de feu Édouard Rahir, ancien libraire", as Rahir had mandated, "for he had no respect for the retired bookseller who tends to forget that he has ever been in trade" (Arthur Rau, "Édouard Rahir 1862-1924" in The Book Collector, Summer 1967, pp.169-177). |
| In the information about item 1554, we see that it has been attributed (incorrectly) to Derome, due to the bird tool, even today certain booksellers still make the mistake of attributing every binding with a bird on it to Derome. Jubert had more than one kind of these tools, I have detailed these previously on another page (click here to see it). On the next page we are going to concentrate on some of the smaller tools found on this signed specimen from the Hoe catalogue, these may help us to identify more mosaic bindings by Jubert. |
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