XXVIe congrès de l’Association internationale de bibliophilie, Vienne et Basse-Autriche, 5-10 octobre 2009
The Parisian bookbinding company Gruel-Engelmann became a specialist of “gift bookbinding” from the middle to the end of the 19th century, and turned books into precious objects dressed in carved wood, ivory, silver or even gold. The BnF keeps a rare example of this kind of book-binding, on a book o...
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| Sumari: | The Parisian bookbinding company Gruel-Engelmann became a specialist of “gift
bookbinding” from the middle to the end of the 19th century, and turned books into
precious objects dressed in carved wood, ivory, silver or even gold. The BnF keeps a
rare example of this kind of book-binding, on a book of devotion to Mary, entitled
Mois de Marie by E. Lepelle de Bois-Gallais (Res. p. D. 159). This work is made of wood
set on blue velvet and decorated with a delicate enamel painting. Michel Liénard, one
of the most prolific ornemanists of the century, designed it around 1856. This artist
played a major role in developing their style for these times, so concerned by the past
but also obsessed by novelty. The alliance of a wilful entreprise and talented artists
permitted the carved binding to be fashionable for some decades, and to be greeted
with public success at the international exhibitions. |
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