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Title

 Bookbinding, The Hague, Christiaan Micke, c.1758


Creator

 Micke, Christiaan (boekbinder/bookbinder)


Year

 ca. 1758


Type

 boekband, binding


Measurements

 27,9 x 20,9 x 2,9 cm.


Related term

 boekbanden, marokijn, goudstempeling


Period

 18e eeuw


Classification

 F: Bindkunst


Content

 Gold-tooled red, dark-blue and olive-green morocco binding. Both boards are tooled with a lacework border. In the centre are small, tooled, olive-green panels round a larger dark-blue compartment. The binding has not been signed, but the tools of the binder, Christiaan Micke, are known from the bindings he made for the Stadholders' library.


Original

 Werken, Margareta Geertruid van der. - Willem de IV. - Leiden: Cornelis de Pecker en Willem de Groot, 1756


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 136 C 15


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek