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Le Nouveau Testament
Artist
Purgold, L. G. of Paris
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Title
Le Nouveau Testament
Description
Style: Frame|Lettered cover, eg intitals, titles; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in blind|Tooled in gold|Onlaid; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: c154b1
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 16c; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings. Macchi states; L. G. Purgold (?1784-1829). Established by1810; included in 1816 Almanac at Dauphine 35; received a Medal of Honour in 1818; moved to Cassette 18 in 1821 and c1826 to rue du Roule 15. He was apparently associated with Hering, from about 1820 till 1825. His wife, Anne Thérèse Langlois, married Purgold's finisher Antoine Bauzonnet.
References

Paul Culot, Reliures et reliures decorees en France a l'epoque romantique, Bruxelles, 1995

Paul Culot, Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire, Brussells, 2000 . Julien Flety, Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours, 1988. Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Relieurs et reliures, 1995, p. 542-543; C. Ramsden, French bookbinders, p. 166-167
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