Lovely French Binding from the Marquis of Ormonde's Library
Carmina. edition Stereotypa Herhan.
Paris: E prelis fratrum Mame, 1808.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
[4], xi, [1], 353 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Lovely French Binding from the Marquis of Ormonde's Library. Full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with ornamental gilt-rolled borders, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-stamped in 5 and lettered in one, gilt turn-ins, pale blue coated endpapers, all edge gilt, with the binder's name stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine: "R.P. CHILLIAT". Bookplate on first pastedown. Fine. Ramsden, French Bookbinders 1789-1848, p. 55.
Item #57472
The works of Roman poet Horace, together in a beautiful French red morocco binding. Lovely example of the work of the Parisian bookbinder, mentioned in contemporary almanachs only for the years 1815 and 1816. This copy is from the library of the Marquis de Ormonde, and is signed by him neatly on the title page: "Ossory Feb. 29, 1826"; and beneath his signature, the inscription "R. Butler / Killenny. Sept. / 37."
