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French Decorative Bookbinding - Eighteenth Century

Relieur Royal - 1770

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The reproduction of the binding shown above is found on a 2015 Sotheby's online auction page LIVRES ET MANUSCRITS 25 JUNE 2015 - 2:30 PM CEST PARIS. (click here to see it). We do not know if this binding was executed in the same year that the book it is covering, was published. However we have already catalogued most of the tools, seen in the decoration of this binding.


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Comparative Diagram 1 - Semaine Sainte corner vs 1770 Dorat corner

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In Comparative Diagram 1, we compare the corner of the possibly earlier Semaine Sainte binding (click here to see it again) with this 1770 Dorat. At first I thought all the imprints were the same however when you look closely you see that the scrolls of the 33 pairs are smaller in the 1770 example.


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Comparative Diagram 2 - Relieur Royal imprints rr-33 pairs

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Comparative Diagram 3 - Relieur Royal imprints rr-29-6 (orientation)



When I was collecting stone tools in the South Pacific, often in a large freshly tilled open field that had just been washed down with a light rain, the tools would often be mostly below the surface with only a small part exposed by the rain, some stones might be tools while many would be less interesting, it was in that exercise that I learned to appreciate the expression, leave no stone unturned, Comparative Diagram 3 is something of a similar vein, here we are attempting to establish, through orientation, whether this imprint has recognizable characteristics. We can see that in most cases the foot that is pointing to a 7:30 o'clock position appears to be somewhat smaller than the rest.


On the next page, I am going to reveal a way to find a verified 1782 dentelle binding by Étienne II Anguerrand.




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see below links to previous work






Atelier I B 31/10/2014





Icons of the Renaissance 06/02/2014





Atelier au trefle 22/12/2014




Atelier Royal 1518 - 1524 09/11/2014





Unraveling G. D. Hobson's book on fanfares 27/11/2014





16c fanfare on eBay 23/11/2014




another Padeloup binding on eBay 07/12/2014


the last Padeloup fanfare?


Rare Padeloup binding on eBay 15/11/2014



Pierre-Paul Dubuisson's work attributed to Derone le jeune 23/10/2014 (unfinished work now finished)


Pierre-Paul Dubuisson's work attributed to Douceur 22/10/2014 (an under contruction page finished at last)


Louis-Marie Michon - the 1956 Disaster 19/10/2014 (an unfinished page finished at last)


Louis XII Dolphins motif 03/02/2014


Aristophanes Binder 1543 02/02/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - Atlas Catalan 12/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - Linacre bindings 05/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier c. 1500-1520


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - Chronology 16/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - Inventory - binding No. 29 19/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - Inventory - binding No. 39 19/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - The mysterious disappearance of François Tissard d'Amboise 23/01/2014


Atelier des reliures LOUIS XII - FRANÇOIS Ier - The Simon Vostre fiasco 18/01/2014


L'Atelier Simon Vostre 1486-1521 01/01/2014


L'Atelier de Pierre Roffet 1511-1533 - TOOL CATALOGUE 26/01/2014


L'Atelier de Pierre Roffet 1511-1533 27/12/2013


Pierre Roffet - fleur-de-lis binder 28/12/2013


Fleur-de-lis Binder 1525-1540 27/11/2013


Du Saix Master 02/12/2013


Atelier Étienne Roffet 1538-1549 12/12/2013


Atelier Jean Picard 1538-1547


Imitative Binder c.1540 15/12/2013


Salel Binder 1540 17/11/2013


Atelier Ruette 1606-1669 INVENTORY


Atelier Macé Ruette 1606-1644


Atelier du Maitre Doreur 1622-1638


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


Atelier Jean-Pierre Jubert, 1771-1793?


Atelier MM binder, 1770-179-?





A word of Caution

Even experts are sometimes wrong, before you spend thousands on a book, please do your own research! Just because I say a certain binding can be attributed to le Maitre isn't any kind of guarantee, don't take my word for it, go a step further and get your own proof. In these pages I have provided you with a way of doing just that.

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