Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l'Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de Livres de la Ville de Paris et d'une Étude sur les Styles de Reliure.
Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin, 1893.
Price: $3,500.00
About the item
First edition, no. 9 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. 32 plates (1 folding), numerous illustrations in text, with additional suite of 47 double-page photogravures by Jules Jacqueneau of historic bindings bound-in at rear. vii, [i], 416, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full dark purple crushed morocco, covers tooled in gilt with wide double filet border with curling leaf and floral tools at corners, spine with raised bands, wide gilt turn-ins, silk doublures and endsheets, t.e.g, original warppers bound-in, by Pétrus Ruban. Minor surface wear at extremities, else fine. Brenni 523. Provenance: Phiroze K. Randeria (bookplate).
Item #306704
A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the progression of binding styles, and a useful biographical dictionary of binders. This copy in a fine rococo binding by Pétrus Ruban (1851-1929).
