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Binding, The Hague, 1655

year: 1655

type: boekband
binding
detail: nee
dimensions: 15,1 x 8,5 x 3,8 cm.
related terms: boekbanden marokijn goudstempeling krulstempels
period: 17e eeuw
classification:
F: Bindkunst

contents: Gold-tooled olive-green morocco bookbinding. The unknown bookbinder of this binding must have worked in The Hague in the 1640s and 1650s and was probably the man who introduced tooling with small curly tools into Holland (`petits fers' , a technique that had been in vogue in France since the beginning of the century).

origineel:
source: Thomas à Kempis. - Navolginge Christi. Vert. en met verssen verciert by Cornelis Boey, 5e druk. - Den Haag: A. en J. Tongerloo, 1655
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 142 G 25

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