Examples of the Art of Book-binding by Bernard Quaritch

Author:Bernard Quaritch
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 1897-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Dark olive-green morocco, in fine condition; bound in precisely the same style and manner as the Bnrgklehner.

492 HEINSIUS. dakiblis heinsii obationes . . Lvgd. Batavorvm, Apnd

Lndonicnm Blzeniriam . Anno CIOIOCXV . . Small 8vo. printed

on Thick Paper and howndfcrr Be Thou 1615 50 0 0

Red morocco. The centrepiece on the sides is of the old style once more, so that the book looks almost exactly like the Basilius described above, lliere is, however, a variation. Instead of ihe combination of perpendicular and oblique lines cutting off the top and bottom panels on the buck, which had prevailed for over twenty years, we find substituted in its place five horizontal parallel lines of which the first, second, fourth, and fifth are plain gold, while the third consists of gold dots. This binding dates from about 1616.

Presentation copy from Ueinsius to De Thou with his autognqph inscriptum (partly defaced) on the title.

It fetched £66 at the Beckford sale.

Marguerite de Valois, 1585-88:

493 LINOCIER (Geofroy) l'histoikb des plantbs, tradvicte de Latin en

Fran9oiB : avec levrs povrtraicts . . A Paris, Chez Charles Mac^ . . M.D.TiXXXIIII . . l^TDiO, with nuvnerous fine woodcuts; in the original binding, enclosed in a red morocco case 1584 90 0 0

Citron morocco, richly gilt with that pattern of decoration which has always hitherto been considered as marking the ownership of Queen Mark^erite;(de Valois), the most remarkable lady of her line, who, by marrying Henry of Navsjrre, became the link between the Valois and the Bourbon dynasties.

Mr. Gnigard, puzzled like so many others, by the heraldic peculiarity of the centrepiece on the sides, has invented a theory that the real owner of the little volumes which are decorated like this one, was Marie Marguerite de Valois de Saint Remy, daughter of Henri Ill's bastard. But as this lady could not have been bom before 1600, she is oertainli- not the princess for whom the little ** Marguerite '* volumes were bound. They will assuredly be found to have all been product between 1650 and 1600;—a collateral testimony being furnished by the fact that the books arrayed in this style were all printed before 1600 ; none after that date, and most of them during the years 1580 to 1696. They are all decorated in identical style, differing only in the colour of the morocco. In the case now before us, the leather is citron morocco (it is sometimes red, sometimes blue). The space between the two rows of fillets on the sides is filled with a succession of curving palm-branches and sprays of foliage in alternation. Within the inner double fillet is the specially characteristic decoration in whidi we see five horizontal rows of three oval compartments each. The ovals are produced by thin wreaths of foliage, within which are enclosed flowers (the wild rose, marigold, narcissus, . lily, and daffodil). The inmost oval (i,e. the eighth) is ihe cemrepiece and is larger than the rest On the lower cover, it encloses a natural Hiy surrounded by the motto KxPBOTATA MON BLUDBT.

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