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French Decorative Bookbinding - Eighteenth Century

Luc-Antoine Boyet

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The binding shown above is found in a 2002 LIBRAIRIE SOURGET - MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES PRECIEUX - CATALOGUE N° XXIV, page 87, lot 29. This is the same catalogue as the 1696 binding shown on the previous page. for those who think that nothing happens by accident this is a strange coincidence, to not find a Boyet No. 6 fer for 10 years then find 2 in the same catalogue seems mysterious. Now my thinking was that if I could find another No. 6 then it might be related to our 1696 binding. The first thing to note is that the books within these bindings are both rare 16th century publications that are within a few years of each other. I have included the entire Sourget information for this item, as it may lead us to more similar bindings. There are a number of similer if not identical tools that have been used on these two bindings that may represent the state of Boyet bindings around 1696.



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Comparative Diagram 1 - Boyet fer 6 (after Isabelle de Conihout & Pascal Ract-Madoux 2002)


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Comparative Diagram 2 - 1696 spine details vs Sourget lot 29 spine details


IN Comparative Diagram 2, we can see that the corner tools are the same on both bindings, this I think would seem to be a good indicator of a similar time of execution, I then set out to try to find another binding with the same spine panel corner tools.



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The binding shown above is found in a 1999 LIBRAIRIE SOURGET - MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES PRECIEUX - CATALOGUE N° XIX, page 208, lot 78. We know from reading the Sourget information that this is certainly a Boyet, it is binding that was made for René-François de La Vieuville with his arns on the covers, and who they say had all of his bindings made by the same workshop that we know today was Boyet's workshop.




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Comparative Diagram 3 - Boyet corner tools 1688-1696


In Comparative Diagram 3 we see that all three bindings have spine panels decorated with the same corner tools, now I have found on Sotheby's another almost identical binding made by Boyet for Vieuville (click here to see it)



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Comparative Diagram 4 - Boyet corner tools 1686-1688


In Comparative Diagram 4, I have assembled the lower spine panels and palettes of these two pairs of Vieuville bindings by Boyet, and below included the Sotheby's information on these bindings which are obviously by Boyet, my interest here was the palettes as I had seen this simple circle diamond square arrangement before and the question was this palette an important clue to early Boyet work and so started searching again the catalogues.


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Atelier Antoine Ruette 1638-1669


Atelier des Caumartin 1652-1715


Atelier de Charenton 1670-1685


Atelier Luc-Antoine Boyet 1685-1733


Atelier Antoine-Michel Padeloup. dit Le Jeune 1685-1758


Atelier Louis Douceur 1721-1769


Atelier Pierre-Paul Dubuisson 1746-1762


Atelier Nicolas-Denis Derome, dit Derome le Jeune 1761-1788


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A word of Caution

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