| In the diagram shown above I have extracted the imprints found on a binding by Pierre-Paul Dubuisson. that was recently recovered from eBay. We have examined some of these imprints on a previous page, here I have assembled the complete collection from this binding, in as much as some of the imprints are exceptionally clear and well preserved, I have reproduced them here at 300 dpi for reference, and at 600 dpi for comparative research purposes. I have further magnified these imprints to 1200 dpi so that certain minute details that are normally blurred or invisible can be shown for the first time. For example in the 1200 dpi enlargement of pd-5 shown below we can see a small crater like depression in the central dot of this fleuron (indicated by arrow "a"). The arrow "b" is pointing to an odd defect in this tool that can be useful in detecting this particular Dubuisson tool amongst so many others, Derome used a nearly identical tool, Jubert also used this sort of tool and Douceur had something similar. Another detail worth noting is that there are seven petals on Dubuisson's imprint and only six on that of Derome while some others have only five. |
| To add to these high resolution Dubuisson imprints we have another scanned source, Davis541 from the British Library Database of Bookbindings, this is the back cover, click on the image below to see a 300 dpi enlargement. |
| Below I have assembled 300 dpi enlargements taken from the davis541 binding. Each imprint is shown along with type specimens from the alltoolspd catalogue, each of these diagrams link to 1200 dpi enlargements. In most cases these new high resolution images are vastly superior to the old catalogue specimens. |
| Below is an updated Dubuisson imprint Catalogue, there are still many tools to be added. nUnlike the imprints shown above, not all of the imprints in this collection are high resolution. Certainly many armorial tools such as pd-11 could be added, some of these tools may have been used only rarely. The tools shown here are to be considered his main tools. Some of these tools were kept in use after Pierre-Paul Dubuisson's death, perhaps by his father, perhaps by the staff in the Almanach workshops. Dubuisson's plaques were in use postmortem for decades. |
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