Jesuit prize binding (2 resultados)

2. Louvain, Chez C.J.Fonteyn, 1845, two volumes in-8°. Binding; 2 volumes in uniform purple roan, front cover with gilt leave shaped roll-stamp and oval gilt center piece with the text; Collegium Soc. Jesu Antverpiae/Praemium, centered in a rhombic blindtooled cartouche, back-cover with the same roll stamp and rectangular cartouche with an Agnus Dei motive. Marbled edges. Praemio; printed form with typografical border with handwritten remarks; pupil = Jacques Jacobs de Louvain, date 17 August 1849, signed by P.Hessels s.j. (first school principal of the Notre-Dame college, founded in 1840). For the binding see; Coppens C.; De prijs is het bewijs (Exhibition catalogue Leuven, 1991) pp. 135-139 with an illustration of the same binding; Culot P.; Quatre siècles de reliure en Belgique, Brussels 1988, pp 216-217 item 96, also illustrated. Some very minor scratches, nice copies.…

2. Paris , Crapart, An XII (1803), two volumes in-8°. Binding; 2 volumes in uniform purple roan, front cover with gilt leave shaped roll-stamp and oval gilt center piece with the text; Collegium Soc. Jesu Antverpiae/ Praemium, centered in a rectangular blindtooled cartouche, back cover with same roll-stamp and rectangular central blindtooled cartouche with a cross motif. Marbled edges. Praemio; printed form with typografical border with handwritten remarks. For the binding see; Coppens C.; De prijs is het bewijs (Exhibition catalogue Leuven, 1991) pp. 135-139 with an illustration of a similar binding; Culot P.; Quatre siècles de reliure en Belgique, Brussels 1988, pp 216-217 item 96, also illustrated. Some very minor scratches but very nice copies.…