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Title
 Bookbinding, The Hague, Christiaan Micke, c.1758

Creator
 Micke, Christiaan (boekbinder/bookbinder)

Year
 ca. 1758

Type
 boekband, binding

Measurements
 27,9 x 20,9 x 2,9 cm.

Related term
 boekbanden, marokijn, goudstempeling

Period
 18e eeuw

Classification
 F: Bindkunst

Content
 Gold-tooled red, dark-blue and olive-green morocco binding. Both boards are tooled with a lacework border. In the centre are small, tooled, olive-green panels round a larger dark-blue compartment. The binding has not been signed, but the tools of the binder, Christiaan Micke, are known from the bindings he made for the Stadholders' library.

Original
 Werken, Margareta Geertruid van der. - Willem de IV. - Leiden: Cornelis de Pecker en Willem de Groot, 1756

available in
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 136 C 15

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek