BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF BINDERS, &C. 195

DB ROME.

This person has been styled the Phoenix ofBinders. He was a contemporary of Pasdaloup, andappears to have worked much in the same style,throwing great solidity into the forwarding of hisbooks, and much elegance into the finishing. Hisbindings, consequently, are as much sought after,and as highly prized by the possessors.

DE LORME.

A good binder of the same period as Pasdeloupand De Rome, but not so celebrated. His country-men charge him with the imitation of some of thelad English binding.

COURTEVAL,

an artist of modern times, presented a new featurein his bindings by the union of elasticity and solidity,now so much and rightly estimated. He appears tohave been a man of talent as well as taste, in estimat-ing and adopting the improvements of other nations,and rejecting their errors along with those of his own.Very few workmen of his day united in an equaldegree the grace, solidity, elegance, and proportion,that is found in the bindings that came from hishands. Very little, if any, fault can be found inthem.

EEFEBRE,

another binder of modem times, who, rejecting theprejudices of custom, adopted the improvements in-s 2