Histoire de Charles V : surnommé le Sage, roi de France / par J.-J.-E. Roy ..
A French history of King Charles V, the Wise, written by J.-J.-E. Roy and printed in Tours by A. Mame et cie in 1850 for a general readership. Its two pictures are the decorative cloth binding, a repeating pattern of pink flowers, green leaves and vine stems on a cream ground with a gilt-edged border, and the spine lettering; a designer could take from them a ready model for botanical all-over pattern and the warm red-green-gold palette of mid-nineteenth-century publishers' cloth.
