"Antoine Michel Padeloup, commonly called Padeloup le jeune, who succeeded Luc Antoine Boyet as 'Relieur de Roi,' came from a family which could boast five successive generations of stationers and bookbinders. Of these Antoine Padeloup, the grandfather of Padeloup le jeune, obtained his freedom as a master-binder, in 1633: and François Padeloup, of the fifth generation was still working at the beginning of the last century. (19th) Antoine Michel Padeloup was born on the 22nd December, 1685, and served his apprenticeship with his father, Michel Padeloup. Before the year 1712, he married Marguerite Renault, and had established himself as a master-binder. It was his practice to affix a small engraved, or printed ticket (étiquette), either to the title-page, or the end-papers, of the books bound by him.... The breve, appointing him Binder in Ordinary to Louis XV, in the place of Luc Antoine Boyet, is dated 23rd August, 1733: this office he held conjointly with Augustin Du Seuil, who had married his cousin, Françoise. In 1735 Padeloup was elected one of the wardens of the Guild of St. Jean, of which he was an active member.

Padeloupe le jeune was much employed, not only by the King, but by all the chief collectors of his age: and his practice, of attaching his ticket to the books, which he bound, often enables his work to be recognized with certainty. In the skill, and taste, with which he forwarded his simpler bindings, he belongs to the age of Boyet, and completes the art of the seventeenth century. His work, in common with that of the distinguished forwarders, who proceeded him, is remarkable for its solidity, pliantness, finish, and for the beauty of the leathers, which are employed in it. A copy of an Eutropius, etc., Paris 1539, in the British Museum, bound in blue morocco, and stamped with the arms of Comte d'Hoym is a good example of his art in this regard [674. a. 14]. At the foot of the title-page of this little book is pasted his ticket, engraved with the inscription: 'Relié par Padeloup le jeune, Place Sorbonne à Paris'.

"In his gilding, in his elaboration of the 'dentelle' border to which he gave a very original air, he may be considered the father of the French binders, who immediately succeed him, all of whom are inferior to him, both in the execution, and in the invention, of their work. 'Dentelle' borders, so called from the indented edge which they present toward the centre of the boards, first occur upon the 'doublures' of the time of Boyet: these were now elaborated and used by Padeloup as the chief exterior decoration of the boards. The invention which he exhibits in the design of these borders is shown in a binding of great beauty and originality, figured by M. Gruel in his Manuel [s.n.]: the book is a copy of Les Fêtes données au Roy à Strasbourg en 1744, and bound for Louis XV. Although the forms of the tools, used on this binding, are of a florid character; yet the effect of their composition is at once simple and magnificent. It is the work of a distinguished artist. the inventor of an individual style.""