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Historia naturalis [Italian]
Artist
Picques, Claude
Author
Plinius Secundus, Gaius
Title
Historia naturalis [Italian]
Description
Style: Interlacing ribbon/strapwork|Mottoes; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
Accession number
Shelfmark: ic19693
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1476; Venice; Grolier, Jean (1479-1565)
Notes Bequeathed by C M Cracherode. Lawrence A. Miller's http://www.cyclopaedia.org relieur-du-roi pages includes enlargements of tools used by the royal workshops, suggesting Jean Picard.
References

See H M Nixon, Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier, London, 1965, n. 70.

M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1978 pp170-182. Annie Parent Charon, Nouveaux documents sure les reliures parisiens du XVI siecle in Revue Francaise d'histoire du livre, no 35, 1982, pp389-408.
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