Keywords: Opera (3 vols) - Upper cover (Davis497).jpg Style Lettered cover eg intitals titles Panel design; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc About 20 known examples of this kind executed between 1550 and 1555 the decoration of which is generally very simple The Bibliothèque nationale Paris has a similar example Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris Des livres rares p 68 n 47 Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of bookbindings p 34 pl XL on Laurinus semplice on Cicero De natura deorum Venetiis 1523 owned by J Toovey - Catalogue of a collection of books formed by James Toovey p 19; La bibliothèque de feu Edouard Rahir Première partie p 11 n 47 on text Guilielmi Budaei parisiensis libri V de asse Venetiis in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri 1522 For Laurin see also Davis 352 not digitised object history Text 1518-1519; Venice; Laurin Marc object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol I London 1978 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004174 ImageId ImageId 41692 Copyright BL Opera 3 vols Uploaded with GWToolset Opera 3 vols - Upper cover Davis497 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6208_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |