Racontars Illustrés d'un Vieux Collectionneur.
Paris: La Librairie de "L'Art" 1887.
Price: $450.00
About the item
First edition, ONE OF 500 COPIES (total edition of 650) in one volume, on Japon. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with over 50 plates of which 23 are chromolithographs, as well as numerous etchings, photogravures, facsimile autographs, etc. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter orange morocco and marbled paper boards. Fine copy, with original wrappers bound in.
Item #25344
Delightful potpourri by the Vice-President of la Société des Amis des Livres, with everything for the collector of books, paintings, drawings, autographs, pottery, and knick-knacks - with a plethora of illustrations, including stunning chromolithographic plates of several of beautiful bindings by Padeloup, Le Gascon, ê la Grolier, etc.
A beautiful book, produced for bibliophiles, about the art and sport of collecting itself.
