Lanterna Rally

Author: Bernard Quaritch

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780428342616

Excerpt from A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books Remarkable for the Beauty or the Age of Their Bindings or as Bearing Indications of Former Ownership by Great Book-Collectors and Famous Historical Personages, 1889 To return to Grolier. He was not only (as we suspect) the actual creator of the school of binding known by his name, but he was also the cause of its sudden and rapid development in France and elsewhere. His books aroused the enthusiasm of the court of Francis I. Some volumes were bound (after 1540) for that king in a gorgeous and splendid style, rich in gilding and colour, which contrast strongly with the earlier work done for him by Etienne Rod'et. The Dauphin (henri II) and several grands seigneurs caught the pleasing contagion, and Paris gave birth to a number of grand examples of the kind. Henri 11 came to the throne, and between 1550 and 1558 several volumes bound for him and his beautiful mistress, Diane de Poitiers, exhibit the highest perfection of achievement in the italo-grolieresque style, individualized by the introduction of the chaste symbols of the huntress-queen, and the mottoes and devices of the lady and her royal lover. Count Mansfeld. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.