| We can start this page by looking at a pair of imprints that I suspect derive from Delorme's post Dubuisson tools. I do not remember seeing this pair in any of Dubuisson's work. In fact I can not remember them being in any of Delorme's decorations either so I have catalogued them as del-47a and del-47b. |
| In Comparative Diagram 1, we see three examples, I wanted to illustrate and catalogue complete examples without any details that have been overlapped by another imprint, alas, every example has had a small part obscured. I have had to invent the missing part, the reconstructed pair are shown then in Comparative Diagram 2. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3, I show some similar Dubuisson imprints, I have used these examples to show why I have catalogued the Delorme imprints as del-47. The pd-46 imprints are similar however they differ (as almost all other examples from various binders do) in that they spring from a tight whorl and expand into a spray of leaf like forms. The pd-47 pair however do not begin with a whorl, similarly this new Delorme pair are without the whorl and so have been catalogued as del-47. Most paired tools appear as nearly identical mirrored counterparts, not all do however and the pd-46 pair are an example with a different sized leaf termination The del-47 pair also shows some distinct differences that will help to identify them. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we investigate these critically important corner tools, the Delorme imprint compared with a early Dubuisson example. I say early as it has been reproduced from a British Library Dubuisson binding shelfmarked Davis541. we have delved into this binding on a previous page (click here to see it) and particularly the pd-2 imprint has been detailed there. What I failed to mention on that page is the fact that we do not really know when Dubuisson decorated this Collombat 1748 Office de la Semaine Sainte. I show more examples of these all over design Collombat bindings by Dubuisson here . The publication dates of these examples varies widely but with most covering the 1748 edition, in a way this is very similar to the Douceur 1739 OFFICE DE LA QUINZAINE DE PASQUE mosaics, where he produced a number of very similarly decorated bindings for a number of different people, all of whom had a thing about this particular edition I speculated that these bindings were not made in 1739 but probably much later, perhaps in the 1750s and it may be that these Dubuisson Collombats were also produced in the 50's. The point I want to get at here is that we know for a fact that Delorme employed this pd-2 tool in the post Dubuisson period well over a decade after Dubuisson first began employing it. Now I am wondering if we can see any wear and tear on this tool. |
| In Comparative Diagram 5, I point out a number of cuts that appear in both the old and newer example. However the green letter 'F' points out a detail that can be observed in the Davis541 examples in Comparative Diagram 6 but not in the Delorme examples shown in Comparative Diagram 7. Could this be a sign of age wear? |
| In Comparative Diagram 8, I show examples of this tool that obviously copy the Dubuisson model of this type. The example that I show for Jubert may in fact be Derome's tool that he borrowed alhough it looks smaller in this diagram, this may be a scale error. I have said previously that once you are familiar with corner tools, identifying binders is less complicated that you might imagine. |
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