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French Decorative Bookbinding - Eighteenth Century

Louis Douceur - 1739


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When I saw this binding on eBay, I noticed the small tools in the spine compartments and said to myself these look like the Douceur d-32-14 pair, could this be a Douceur I wondered. I had seen this kind of dentelle many times, and wondered who made them. I wondered if Douceur was doing this kind of thing in the 30's before making the more elaborate dentelles in the 40's. The seller boldly states that the inside of this book is a mess, that was lucky, it ment it wouldn't be expensive, in fact no one wanted to buy it. Lucky for me, I took a gamble to see if this could really be a Douceur. As soon as it arrived I put it on the scanner, the spine was the important part and scanners are not so good on spines with raised bands, but anyway I saw something that made me smile it looked like I was right about the d-32-14 pair. Then I got out the camera and tried to get some close up photos of these imprints.




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Comparative Diagram 1 - Louis Douceur imprints d-32-14 pair vs 1739 Missel imprint photos

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In Comparative Diagram 1, I present incontrovertible irrefutable proof, my own 1200dpi scans of this pair of Douceur imprints compared with photographs from this 1739 Missel. The details in these imprints are not always so clear and we a lucky to see in this 1739 example the small cuts in the stem of d-32b-14, certain proof that these imprints derive from the tools of Louis Douceur. Not only this pair but all the tools that were used to decorate this binding are the early tools of Douceur.



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Louis Douceur imprint d-21-9

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Louis Douceur imprints d-21-9

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Louis Douceur 1739 spine compartment and palette.

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Atelier de Charenton 1670-1685


Atelier Luc-Antoine Boyet 1685-1733


Atelier Antoine-Michel Padeloup. dit Le Jeune 1685-1758


Atelier Louis Douceur 1721-1769


Atelier Pierre-Paul Dubuisson 1746-1762


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A word of Caution

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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