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French Decorative Bookbinding - Sixteenth Century


l'atelier des reliures LOUIS XII et FRANÇOIS Ier
the decorative bookbindings from the workshops of Louis XII and Francis I



Inventory - reliure No. 14


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(No. 14) Guillaume de la Mare, Sylvarium libri IV, Paris, J. Bade, 1511-1513 upper cover.
Reliure aux armes de Louis XII et d'Anne de Bretagne.

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This reproduction is from E. Dacier, L'atelier des reliures Louis XII (1933) No. 11. Plate XI.


Located in the Abbeville Bibliothèque municipale.

see also : A. Ledieu, Les reliures artistiques... de le Bibliothèque communale d'Abbesville dans Mémoires de la Société d' émulation d' Abbeville, tome IV (1891), p. 9, pl. 1.





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