Book of Hours with Inlaid book binding by Derome the Elder

Item date: 1745-6
Grant Value: 300
Item cost pre-decimal: not recorded
Item date acquired: 1964
Item institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Fine example of a mosaic binding of white calf elaborately decorated with inlays of red blue green and citron morocco. Tooled doublures of red morocco and blue silk endpapers by Jacques-Antoine Derome the Elder. Illustrated as colour frontispiece of AR

Item Provenance
Bound for Mary Arundell with her monogram in an oval compartment in the centre of each cover. The binding remained in the Arundell family until sold at Sothebys October 1964 (Lot 148)