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.

Doublures in a Divan of Hafez, 1842, Iran.

The 15th century Islamic doublures strongly influenced the doublures in Western Europe.[1]

The term doublure is of French origin. Tooled doublures are found in French bookbinding of the seventeenth century: 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
  1. Thomson, Lawrence S. (2003). "Binding". In Drake, Miriam (ed.). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. 1 (2nd ed.). New York, USA: CRC Press. ISBN 0824720776.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. French Decorative Bookbinding - Seventeenth Century
  3. Lorenzaccio. "Reading Europe: European culture through the book". The European Library.
  4. 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).
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