BINDING. The Office of Holy Week for the... - Lot 70 - Giquello

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BINDING. The Office of Holy Week for the... - Lot 70 - Giquello
BINDING. The Office of Holy Week for the use of the House of the King. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de jacques-François Collombat, 1750. In-12, red morocco, plates covered with a repeating mosaic decoration of irregular pieces of green morocco laid out in a lattice of gilt filets decorated at the intersections with lemon morocco pastilles, reminder of the decoration on the spine, inside roulette, gilt edges, modern half morocco folder and slipcase (18th century binding). A curiosity in the history of bibliophily: the mutilation of an authentic 18th century binding by an expert and bookseller who considered it to have been tampered with. This binding was decorated by a forger with a beautiful mosaic decoration in the style of Padeloup, and bears, affixed at the bottom of the title, the label of this bookbinder. The first cover and a large part of the spine were torn off at the beginning of the twentieth century by Edward Rahir at an auction, as indicated by this funny pencil note on a cover page: "This binding was sold at public auction. Before the sale Rahir asked that it be sold at a low price because it is false as to the decoration and he destroyed it in front of everyone in 1919". The volume was collected by Léon Gruel, who preserved it as it was in a morocco case. A note from his hand in red ink, slipped into the volume, confirms: "This binding is not authentic, the skin alone is old and the decoration very remarkably executed and imitated the works of Padeloup is made by a bookbinder named François." With this pencil precision: our time. A similar binding from the 18th century, "embellished two centuries later to create a mosaic binding in the style of Padeloup" was included in the catalogue of the Michel Wittock Collection (II, 2004, no. 56).
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