Creator
[Esprit] Fléchier
Title
Histoire de Théodose le Grand.
Coverage
Tours
Publisher
Ad Mame et Cie
Date
1860
Subject
Nouvelle éd., 8, 235 pp. 12mo.
(Belongs to the series Bibliothèque des écoles chrétiennes). 3 copies.
(Belongs to the series Bibliothèque des écoles chrétiennes). 3 copies.
Description
Copy 1 is bound in black leather (possibly goat), which is blind stamped with a large block on the covers with a play of interlacing ribbons and mauresque ornaments. It is outlined by a line in gold. Although it looks like a bespoke binding, it is a Mame publisher’s binding without doubt. This de-luxe, most expensive copy was given away as a prize in an imperial lyceum (gold stamp upper cover).
Copy 2 is bound in dark green paper with an all-over impression mimicking the more expensive binders’ cloth. The paper is stamped with decorative blocks in ‘gold’ on the covers and the spine. This simpler copy was given away in the primary school directed by the fathers Maristen (label on front pastedown).
Copy 3 is bound in white paper, printed light blue and in ‘gold’, with a chromolithography on the upper cover, which refers to the eastern origin of Theodosius. There is no trace of a prize dedication in this simplest and cheapest copy.
Copy 2 is bound in dark green paper with an all-over impression mimicking the more expensive binders’ cloth. The paper is stamped with decorative blocks in ‘gold’ on the covers and the spine. This simpler copy was given away in the primary school directed by the fathers Maristen (label on front pastedown).
Copy 3 is bound in white paper, printed light blue and in ‘gold’, with a chromolithography on the upper cover, which refers to the eastern origin of Theodosius. There is no trace of a prize dedication in this simplest and cheapest copy.
Relation
From the collection of Jan Storm van Leeuwen