Doublure (bookbinding)
Doublures are ornamental linings on the inside of a book. Doublures are protected from wear, compared to the outside of a book, and thus offer bookbinders scope for elaborate decoration.
The 15th century Islamic doublures strongly influenced the doublures in Western Europe.[1]
The term doublure is of French origin. Tooled doublures are to be found in French bookbinding of the seventeenth: in particular, they are associated with the books of the Jansenist sect, which were extremely simple on the outside, while they had gilding on the doublure.[2] One of the bookbinders known for his Jansenist-style bindings was Luc-Antoine Boyet, binder to Louis XIV. The term Jansenist is also applied to bindings in this style of a much later date.[3]
The British bookbinder G.T. Bagguley patented a process for tooling in colours called the "Sutherland binding" which was principally employed on doublures.[4] Bagguley, who was librarian to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, named the process after the duchess.
References
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- ↑ French Decorative Bookbinding - Seventeenth Century
- ↑ Lorenzaccio. "Reading Europe: European culture through the book". The European Library.
- ↑ The British Library has, for example, a copy of The Glittering Plain from Bagguley's bindery with vellum doublures. (C.69.h.9: BL Catalogue, British Library).
