| The Dubuisson binding shown above is found on Plate 35 of Édouard Rahir's 1910 Catalogue, LIVRES DANS DE RICHES RELIURES. This is item number 200 and it is described on page 57. |
| We can now proceed to extract the tools from this binding, and thanks to the important 'key' binding, Davis 541, we can also calibrate the scale of these the imprints very precisely. Add to this the great luxury of such a high quality reproduction, and the results speak for themselves. |
| In Comparative Diagram 3 you will perhaps notice that both of these fleurons appear to be perched upon a small gold sphere or dot. They are not however perfectly centered upon it. This unusual lack of symmetry in both examples assures one that they are in fact twin imprints from the same tool. |
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Comparative Diagram 4, in which both examples are shown at 300dpi, reveals the fine detail of these imprints. Obviously they derive from the same tool. In style and design these tools appear to imitate the azured tools that were so popular two centuries earlier. If you have followed this research and investigation of Dubuisson's tools, you will be ready for the next page, which I should call the Dubuisson Conspiracy. I have discovered slowly but surely an ever increasing number of associated tools. I call them Dubuisson's tools because many appear on bindings on which we also find his plaques... once you start looking at all the tools, you discover an enormous can of worms! |
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