A Collection of 18th-Century Decorated Papers and Paper Bindings
Title:
De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres. Ex Aristotele, Cicerone, & Quinctiliano praecipuè deprompti
Author:
Soarii, R. P. Cypriani
Imprint Date:
1686
Publishing Colophon:
Coloniae Agrippinae, Ex Officina Birckmannica. Anno M. DC. LXXXVI.
Binding:
Quarter brocade paper with second brocade paper, ultimately a wrapper with textile strip sewing supports trapped between covering papers and pastedowns.
Paper:
Brocade: negative floral design with brass-gold (oxidized) on plain paper; brocade: negative floral design with gold on red surface-colored paper
Analysis:
Collector's Notes:
The red brocade paper is signed near the bottom: [M]UNCK A V, with the initials representing Augustae Vindelicorum, the latinization of the city of Augsburg. Another example of this paper in the collection of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (1766_025-026-001) hones the attribution to Johann Michael, who was active in the 1740s and 1750s. His son, Johann Carl, carried on this business starting around 1761.
The green paper on the spine has possible attribution covered by red paper, and is also reproduced in a different colorway in P.J.M. Marks, pp. 112-113, where it is tentatively attributed to both Simon Haichele and, later, Johann Carl Munck.
Collection ID:
25.072