ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466-1536). Apophthegmatum ex optimis utriusque linguae scriptoribus...libri octo . Lyon: Jean Marcorel for Barthélemy Vincent, 1573 (colophon: 1571). Small 8° (123 x 75mm). Device on title. Contemporary German vellum tooled in silver, with yapp edges, on sides a fine large panel with sea-monsters in the four corners, flat spine divided by rolls into four compartments, each with two oval arabesques, yapp edges decorated with a chain-roll enclosing small marguerites, edges gilt and gauffered, partly with binder's tools, to an arabesque design, (some minor rubbing, silver oxidised to a dark grey). A CHARMING GERMAN LATE RENAISSANCE BINDING, with a rare panel attributed by Schunke to a Strassburg bindery. It was presumably designed for books of this format, since it fills the covers exactly. It is employed as a centrepiece on the Strassburg binding of red velvet described and illustrated in Schunke, Einbände der Palatina , 1962, I, p.121, plate 98. The Palatina binding also has impressions of the small oval arabesque tool in the compartments of the spine.
ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466-1536). Apophthegmatum ex optimis utriusque linguae scriptoribus...libri octo . Lyon: Jean Marcorel for Barthélemy Vincent, 1573 (colophon: 1571). Small 8° (123 x 75mm). Device on title. Contemporary German vellum tooled in silver, with yapp edges, on sides a fine large panel with sea-monsters in the four corners, flat spine divided by rolls into four compartments, each with two oval arabesques, yapp edges decorated with a chain-roll enclosing small marguerites, edges gilt and gauffered, partly with binder's tools, to an arabesque design, (some minor rubbing, silver oxidised to a dark grey). A CHARMING GERMAN LATE RENAISSANCE BINDING, with a rare panel attributed by Schunke to a Strassburg bindery. It was presumably designed for books of this format, since it fills the covers exactly. It is employed as a centrepiece on the Strassburg binding of red velvet described and illustrated in Schunke, Einbände der Palatina , 1962, I, p.121, plate 98. The Palatina binding also has impressions of the small oval arabesque tool in the compartments of the spine.
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