| The binding shown above was the frontispiece for the Librairie SOURGET - CATALOGUE N° 37 - 2008 MANUSCRITS et LIVRES Précieux. This is a wonderful catalogue however in 2008 the experts have attributed this binding to Jacques-Andre Derome, why? because they were still clinging on to Louis-Marie Michon's book Les Reliures mosaïquées du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Société des bibliophiles français, 1956. I am going to include below the catalogue description of this binding to show just how far people can go on the wrong track. This binding was decorated by Pierre-Paul Dubuisson, not J A Derome, as we have proved in the past pages and will continue to do so here. |
| In this description they quote Michon who claimed that 9 of the hundreds of mosaics that he studied contained the tickets of the Deromes, on five of them were found the tickets of J A Derome, what he doesn't tell you is that in many others were found the tickets of Dubuisson, these he ignored and or changed the attributions to that of J A Derome. However the most obvious red flag is when Michon comes to speaking of the Almanachs Royal, everyone knew that the Dubuisson's were decorating hundreds of Almanachs with their plaques, it seems as though the Dubuisson's had cornered the business of Almanach decoration, yet in his book Michon does not even mention the Dubuissons. This is our red flag to imagine he could have written such a book without a large chapter on the contribution of the Dubuissons. I must admit that it does seem rather odd that J A Derome would have put his ticket inside a binding he never decorated, however Padeloup was doing the same thing in this same period. |
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| Even experts are sometimes wrong, before you spend thousands on a book, please do your own research! Just because I say a certain binding can be attributed to le Maitre isn't any kind of guarantee, don't take my word for it, go a step further and get your own proof. In these pages I have provided you with a way of doing just that. |
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