Invalid image URL.
Title
Bookbinding, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1550
Creator
Plantijn, Christoffel (boekbinder/bookbinder)
Year
1550
Type
boekband, binding
Measurements
afmetingen onbekend
Related term
boekbanden, goudstempeling, mauresken, kalfsleer
Period
16e eeuw
Classification
F: Bindkunst
Content
Binding of brown calf , gold-tooled and painted with enamel paint in various colours. Christopher Plantin, born around 1520 in France, began his career as a bookbinder and achieved great professional fame. Around 1550 he introduced gold-tooling in Antwerp, a technique he had learned in Paris and which was also to be applied on a large scale in the Northern Netherlands. In 1555, when an accident made binding impossible for him, Plantin started printing books.
Original
Ludovicus ab Avila et Zunniga. - Commentariorum de bello Germanico, à Carlo V. [...] gesto, libri duo. - Antwerpen: in aedib. Ioan. Steelsii, 1550
available in
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 1708 D 41
@description
Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
@reproduction
Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek