Creator
Terence
Title
Comedies (Latin)
Coverage
Paris
Publisher
Imprimerie Royale
Date
1642
Description
Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s finest books were bound in this fashion: red goatskin, moderately decorated on the spine with his monogram and bearing the final version of his armorials surrounded by the collars of his royal orders. This binding was completed after 1668. His device, a green garden-snake on a gold field, is a pun on Colbert’s name: the Latin for this snake is coluber. A bronze portrait medal of Colbert accompanies the volume; his etched portrait is displayed above.
Source
Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of Ruth Shepard Granniss, 1955.
Format
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