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Antique laid paper, medium-weight, moderate brown staining and worm holes; recurring watermark, usually truncated at spine edge, a male head in profile with flowing hair and a thin line ending in a star extending from the top of the head
The word "marguerites" in Middle French meant both "pearls" and "daisies"
Rebound in France, twentieth century; crimson leather over boards sewn on five single cords; identical blind tooled design on front and back boards: rectangular sections of intertwining vines at sides and foliate squares at corners, central panel with two columns of three roundels (containing a pelican and chicks, a bird with two eggs, a baboon, a sheep, a feline, and a man) with two confronted dragons at top and bottom; six compartments at spine framed by thin blind tooled borders, "RECEUIL DE PROVERBES" in second compartment, "1470" in third compartment; gold line along board-edges; narrow crimson turn-ins; white parchment pastedowns bordered with three gold lines, stamped "GRUEL" in gold on front pastedown at bottom center; endbands in green, yellow, and red silk worked with edge-bead around two-tiered cord core; modern green silk ribbon marker and gilt edges added in nineteenth or twentieth century