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The reproduction of the binding shown above comes from an 1993 Ader Tajan auction catalogue Bibliothèque d'un Amateur: TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, Paris juin 4 1993. I have included the detailed information for this item (lot 124). Here we find that the Ader Tajan experts Claude Guérin and Dominique Courvoisier have attributed this binding to Étienne Roffet. They clearly state that this binding can be formally attributed to Roffet due to the large plaque imprints that are identical to those found on Tome II of the Estienne Bible (1538-1540) now found in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The two volumes of this Bible are some of the only bindings that can be attributed with certainty to the atelier of Roffet. (see Dacier, 1929, PL. XIV). They also state that the second large plaque that is found in the central ornament is a rare previously unknown example.
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