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Les oeuvres [and] Cicero, Lest Epistres familiares, Lyons, 1554
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Les oeuvres [and] Cicero, Lest Epistres familiares, Lyons, 1554
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Style: Medallion or plaquette; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis422
Place of creation Binding: Switzerland
Object history Text: 1552 - 1554; Lyons; Fugger, Marx (1529-1597)
Notes According to Henry Davis, Marx Fugger's copy. Probably Geneva binding of goatskin (may be hair sheep). Medallion portrait of Julius Caesar. 4 double spine bands.
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M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.

A R A Hobson, 'Plaquette and medallion bindings'.
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