Keywords: Le Merite de femmes, et autres poesies - Upper cover (c150h14).jpg Style Lozenge or diamond; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Blocked in blind Tooled in gold Tooled in black; Cover Material Calf Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings Signed by Lalande Macchi states; first quarter century Paris bound by Lalande Worked at Beauvais 14 in 1798 and may have been still active up to 1811 as the Brouwet catalogue May 1935 n 43 gives his signature on a book of that date The Almamach Typographique en 1799 mentions a Lalande at St Jean-de-Beauvais C Ramsden French bookbinders p 117 object history Text 1813; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire Brussells 2000 See Julien Flety Dictionnaire des reliures francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000001980 ImageId ImageId 40595 Copyright BL Le Merite de femmes et autres poesies Uploaded with GWToolset Le Merite de femmes et autres poesies - Upper cover c150h14 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/5202_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |