| The reproduction of the bindings shown above is from a Sotheby's online auction catalogue LIVRES ET MANUSCRITS 25 JUNE 2015 2:30 PM CEST PARIS (click here to see it). I noticed a detail in the spines of this set, the palette looked familiar and sure enough this is the same palette that is found on the British Library example C6b18 that we have been studying. |
| In Comparative Diagram 2, the green arrow in the upper part of the detail is pointing to this irregular set of protrusions something akin to the plates of a stegosaurus, one expects them to be a bit more regular however as they are not they become the object of our attention. One can never be too careful in this work of comparing imprints, however the mutual irregularities shown here makes one suspect that these imprints probably derive from one and the same tool. The green arrow at the lower part of the detail points out a somewhat unexpected lack of symmetry. (A line of symmetry would place the meeting of these parts directly under the tridental fleuron.) Considering these points we are assured that this palette is indeed part of the Relieur Royal tool kit. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, we see a somewhat less conventional approach to imprint identification, I have removed the perspective distorion of the photographed imprint, i.e. un-distorted the imprint to show that it probably is the same imprint that is found on the spine of the 1771 Poeme example. |
| Comparative Diagram 5 reveals that the binding of this 1757 Boccace was probably executed some time in the 1770's by the same binder who has decorated the several bindings that we have examined so far in this series of pages. |
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