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SLANGE, Niels & Hans GRAM. Den Stormaegtigste Konges Christian den Fierdes, Konges til Danmark og Norge, Historie. Ed. Peter Fogh. Copenhagen: Royal Press, 1749.
2° (380 x 235 mm.). Gothic type. 2 engraved portraits. (Lightly browned.) FINE DANISH MÄSTARBAND OF CA. 1820 BY AN APPRENTICE IN THE WORKSHOP OF NIELS ANTHON, gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco over thick pasteboard, a ribbon forming variously shaped compartments on the covers and spine filled with tools of flowers, foliage, vases, etc., wide turn-ins decorated with star tools, gilt edges, blue glazed endpapers, flyleaves watermarked Whatman 1819, (edges of the covers very slightly rubbed). Provenance: JSL (gilt monogram tooled inside front cover, perhaps those of the binder or of a later owner).
A splendid example of a Danish examination binding by one of Anthon's apprentices to a set design. Similar demonstration bindings on two other copies of the same book are known; one dates from ca. 1765 and was bound in the workshop of Niels's father, Master Bookbinder Peter Anthon (now in an English private collection); the other was produced in the late 18th century in Niels's shop (Library of Congress; see Dorothy Miner's Baltimore exhibition catalogue no. 448, pl. 88). All three bindings, spanning over half a century, share a number of common tools. Nielson and Berg, Danmarks Bogbindere (1926) p. 81.
2° (380 x 235 mm.). Gothic type. 2 engraved portraits. (Lightly browned.) FINE DANISH MÄSTARBAND OF CA. 1820 BY AN APPRENTICE IN THE WORKSHOP OF NIELS ANTHON, gold-tooled straight-grained red morocco over thick pasteboard, a ribbon forming variously shaped compartments on the covers and spine filled with tools of flowers, foliage, vases, etc., wide turn-ins decorated with star tools, gilt edges, blue glazed endpapers, flyleaves watermarked Whatman 1819, (edges of the covers very slightly rubbed). Provenance: JSL (gilt monogram tooled inside front cover, perhaps those of the binder or of a later owner).
A splendid example of a Danish examination binding by one of Anthon's apprentices to a set design. Similar demonstration bindings on two other copies of the same book are known; one dates from ca. 1765 and was bound in the workshop of Niels's father, Master Bookbinder Peter Anthon (now in an English private collection); the other was produced in the late 18th century in Niels's shop (Library of Congress; see Dorothy Miner's Baltimore exhibition catalogue no. 448, pl. 88). All three bindings, spanning over half a century, share a number of common tools. Nielson and Berg, Danmarks Bogbindere (1926) p. 81.