| If you have read my recent pages on the Mosaic bindings of Louis Douceur (click here to see them) then you will have seen this binding in my previous pages although never as well reproduced as here, I have extracted the tools from the Wassermann black and white example. |
| Now although the Tenschert text is in German we can still notice that they mention near the end Le Monnier and Padeloup and reference their binding No. 13 we are going to look at that because it is very interesting because here we discover yet more Douceur tools. |
| Now looking at the text, without knowing a word a German you can still see there is no sign of the name Douceur and there is a strong emphasis on the name of Le Monnier, and the references at the end are impressive... BUT were are lucky that we cannot read these, because what we know is that this binding and especially the fers à la tulipe belong to Louis Douceur, even if Monnier had his signature on this binding I would still have to point out the very evident Douceur tools. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we see that these imprints are the same, the Douceur example d-6-2 comes from an important mosaic binding that we recently studied (click here to see it) |
| In Comparative Diagram 5, I have collected samples of the Tenschert 13 imprints, often it is useful to have more than one copy of each imprint so that we have a fuller view of the characteristics of each, now we are going to try to find these imprints in other bindings. |
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| 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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