Something for the weekend: we thought this brocade paper was suitable as many in the rare book world are soon to fly off to the New York book fair. 🐦🐦🐦 Used here as endpapers on a French manuscript, Recueil de chansons (1790s).

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As part of the Brocade Paper Week challenge, we present the gilted crest and flowery endpapers from an 18th century rare book in our collection. Previously owned by a Cardinal of the Catholic Church it is a prime example of Ecclesiastical heraldry.

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One of the earliest brocade papers, by Boas Ulrich of Augsburg, who died in 1710. As endpapers on a copy of Le nouveau testament, A Bruxelles, Chez Eugene Henry Fricx, 1702. ✨

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