Title
Pub. Terentii Aphri comoediae VI. . . .
Coverage
Lyon:
Publisher
Sebastian Gryphius,
Date
1534.
Subject
Gift of Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin.
Description
At first glance, this 16th-century calf binding (probably French) looks impressive, but as RBS faculty member David Whitesell points out in his teaching notes, it is relatively shoddy work. The tooling is uneven in depth, the design was not laid out symmetrically, and, on the lower cover, a curved tool in the lower left-hand corner of the panel was stamped in the wrong area. The binder unsuccessfully attempted to cover up the mistake by removing the gold leaf.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School