An exhibition of modern English and French bindings from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey.
London The Arts Council 1949 8vo (24.5 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers. Printed at the Curwen Press. 131 bindings are described, 16 plates.
Soft cover Near Fine
A Picture Book of Bookbindings. Part I: Before 1550. Part II: 1550-1800
London Victoria & Albert Museum 1927 2 volumes 12mo (18.5 cm), 4 pp, 20 plates; 4 pp, 20 plates. Printed wrappers (wrappers little frayed at extremities). The second part published in 1933.
Soft cover Very Good
Bibliothèque Léon Abrami. Livres illustrés du XVIIIe siècle reliés en maroquin la plupart armoriés ou ornés de dentelles
Paris L. Carteret 1926 4to (28.5 cm), [4], 86, [1] pp, 61 plates (some folding). Cot. half-sheep, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers, original wrappers bound in (binding little rubbed and dusted, bottom corners scuffed, internally fine). A catalogue of Léon Abram's library of 18th century books in fine bindings. 247 items described, many bindings illustrated. Léon Abrami (1879-1939) was a French politician. Not in Blogie. The catalogue was published in few copies with a purpose of documenting of the collection with the date and place of the sale undetermined.
Hardcover Near Fine
British Bookbinding Today. With an Introduction by Edgar Mansfield
Perthshire K. D. Duval, Frenich, Foss 1975 4to (30 cm), 68 pp., 39 full page color plates. Publisher's wrappers. Sale catalogue of collection of modern British bindings. Price list inserted loosely. The catalogue was designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona.
Soft cover Near Fine
Catalogue of bindings by Jacob Krause and masters of his circle. Part 1 - 2
Moscow Pashkow dom 2015 2 volumes 8vo (21 cm), 656 pp; 511 pp. Laminated publisher's boards. In Russian. Described and illustrated 381 bindings (the first part) and 255 bindings (in the second part) by Jacob Krause, Caspar Meuser, Jabob Wiedlich, Urban Koeblitz from the collection of the Russian State Library.
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Catalogue of bindings by Jacob Krause and masters of his circle. Part 2
Moscow Pashkow dom 2017 8vo (21 cm), 511 pp, 24 ff of plates. Laminated publisher's boards. In Russian. Described and illustrated 255 bindings by Jacob Krause, Caspar Meuser, Jabob Wiedlich, Urban Koeblitz from collection of Russian State Library. The first part was published in 2015.
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Catalogue of Highly Important Modern French Illustrated Books & Bindings: Part V of the Celebrated Library of the Late Major J. R. Abbey
London Sotheby & Co 1970 8vo (24.5 cm), folding front., 182 pp, folding plates. Printed wrappers. Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of the 5th part of the sale of fine library of English book collector Major John Roland Abbey (1894 -- 1969). Lots 2533 -- 2634 including Apocalisse illustrated by Giorgio de Chirico (Milan, 1941); Balzac' Le Chef d'Oeuvre Inconnu (Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1931); Eaux fortes originales pour des textes du Buffon illustrated by Picasso (1942); Hesiod' Théogonie illustrated by Georges Braque (1955).
Soft cover Fine
Catalogue of the Celebrated Library: The Property of The Late Major J. R. Abbey. The Sixth Portion
London Sotheby & Co 1970 8vo (24.5 cm), 52 pp. Printed wrappers. Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of the 6th part of the sale of fine library of English book collector Major John Roland Abbey (1894 -- 1969). Lots 2635 -- 2861 including English topography, extensive collection of modern English bindings, books from Ashendene, Bremer, Cranach, Doves, Kelmscott, and other presses, bibliography, numerous publications of Roxburghe Club.
Soft cover Fine
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books and Fine Bindings from the Celebrated Collection: The Property of Major J. R. Abbey
London Sotheby & Co 1965 4to (25.5 cm), front., XI, 280 pp, 83 plates. Printed boards. Price list loosely inserted. Auction catalogue of 3-days sale (21-23 June 1965) of fine printed books and bindings from the collection of English book collector Major John Roland Abbey (1894 -- 1969). 694 lots including Almanach Royal, Année MDCCXXXVII in Padeloup le Jeun binding; Johannes Angelus' Astrolabium (Augsburg, Ratdolt, 1488) bound for presentation to Ladislas VII Jagellon, King of Hungary and Bohemia; Appianus' Astronomicon Caesareum (1540); Aristotle's Ethica ad Nicomachum printed in Rome by Sweynheim and Pannartz in 1473; Aldus editio princeps of Aristotle (1495-98) in bindings by Grolier's last binder; Cochin' Voyage Pittoresque d'Italie bound for Madame de Pompadour; first edition of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; a book in 16th century round binding; an Appolo and Pegasus binding.
Hardcover Fine
De libris compactis miscellanea. Edited by Georges Collin
Bruxelles Bibliotheca Wittockiana 1984 4to (31.5 cm), 437, [5] pp. Publisher's cloth. The first volume in 'Studia bibliotecae Wittockianae' series is a collection of 15 essays on the history of bookbinding, including “Un très ancienne reliure à claies de parchimin (Oxford, MS Bodley 807)” by Jean Vezin; “Neu entdeckte Lederschnitteinbände de 15. Jahrhunderts” by Friedrich-Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller; “Medieval blind-stamped bindings associated with Durham Cathedral Priory” by A.I. Doyle; “Two early sixteenth-century binder's shops in Rome” by Anthony Hobson; “ Some bookbinders' price lists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” by Mirjam Foot; “Pierre Vente et compagnie?” by Paul Culot; “Übersicht der ungarischen Einbandgeschichte” by Marianne Rozsondai.
Hardcover Near Fine
Designer Bookbinders 2
Designer Bookbinders 1972 Oblong 8vo (15.5 x 23 cm), [52] pp. Printed wrappers. Established in 1955 the Designer Bookbinders is the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. The publication, which includes 38 illustrations of bindings by 24 binders, is an illustrated directory of fellows of the society.
Soft cover Fine
Designer Bookbinders 3: An Illustrated Directory of Fellows
Designer Bookbinders 1978 8vo (20.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers. Established in 1955 the Designer Bookbinders is the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. The publication includes 52 illustrations of bindings by 21 binders.
Soft cover Fine
Designer Bookbinders Review no. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Designer Bookbinders 1977 5 volumes 8vo (21 cm), 24 pp each, printed wrappers. Five issues (from 14) of the review published by Designer Bookbinders, the principal bookbinding society in Great Britain. After issue 14 it was replaced by replaced by the "The New Bookbinder".
Soft cover Fine
Experiment Bucheinband aktuell. Eine Ausstellung in der Galerie Handwerk München in Zusammenarbeit mit der Typographischen Gesellschaft München anläßlich ihres hundertjährigen Bestehens und der Buchbinder-Innung München-Oberbayern
1990 8vo (24.5 cm), 56 pp, folding plate. Publisher's wrappers in blue envelope cover. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition "Experimental book covers" held at the Galerie Handwerk, Munich 18 October - 14 November 1990.
Soft cover Near Fine
Introligatorzy i ich klienci. Bookbinders and their customers
Toruń Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika 2017 8vo (22.5 cm), 341 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. The second volume of the "Polish Bookbinding Studies" series contains 17 papers delivered at the 2nd Polish Bookbinding Conference in Toruń, 17-18 November 2016. Their content is centered around the main theme of the conference: "Bookbinders and their customers". Included "Pursuing Warmian bookbinding: Late-Gothic workshop ascribed to Lidzbark" by Ewa Chlebus, "Late-gothic bindings of Master of Small Tools in Ossolineum collection" by Dorotha Sidorowicz-Mulak, "Bookbinders of the elites" by Arkadiusz Wagner, and others. Introduction in Polish and English, the articles in Polish with extensive summaries in English.
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Le siècle d'or de l'imprimerie lyonnaise
Éditions du Chêne 1972 4to (32 cm), 162 pp, errata loosely inserted. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine, Lyon's coat or arms in relief on the front board). A collection of essays on the history of printing in Lyon in the 16th century by Henri Hours (Le Renaissanse à Lyon), Henri-Jean Martin (L'apparition du livre à Lyon), Maurice Audin (Cent ans de technique) et Jean Toulet (L'école Lyonnaise de reliure).
Hardcover Fine
Nederlandse handboekbinders- en boekbandontwerpersgroep. Boekbanden in textiel
Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek 1988 4to (29 cm), 52 pp. Printed wrappers (corners little creased). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of the cloth hand-made bookbindings by the Dutch Bookbinder's Designers Group. 94 entries.
Soft cover Very Good
Oprawy Polskie: Wystawa zorganizowana przez Bibliotekę Narodową i Oddział Warszawski Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Książki. Warszawa, XI-XII 1987
Warszawa Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Książki 1987 8vo (21 cm), 108 pp, 4 ff of plates in printed in color. Printed wrappers. In Polish. The catalogue of an exhibition of Polish bindings organized by the Polish National Library and Warsaw branch of Polish bibliophile society Nov.-Dec. 1987. 226 bindings from 1170 to 1986 described, 30 b&w and 8 color illustrations.
Soft cover Fine
Provincial Bookbinding in Great Britain. Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
London Maggs Bros. Ltd 1981 8vo (24.5 cm), 100 pp, 39 plates. Laminated wraps. Maggs catalogue 1014.
Soft cover Near Fine
Reliures de Paul Bonet, Éditions Originales, Livres Illustrésmodernes
Marseille Louis H. Raynaud et Jean-Claude Gamet 1976 8vo (24 cm), [16] pp. Printed wrappers. Auction catalogue of a sale held in Marseille on 30 November 1976. 55 entries.
Soft cover Fine
Tegumentologia polska dzisiaj. Polish bookbinding studies today
Torun Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK 2015 8vo (20 cm), 479 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This volume contains the first in Polish scientific literature collection of eighteen selected texts, written on the basis of papers which were delivered during the First National Bookbinding Studies Conference “Polish Bookbinding Studies Today” (The Institute of Science Information and Book Studies of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, The University Library in Toruń, 26th–27th of June 2014). The articles bring up the issue of a wide range of problems connected with the history of bookbinding, collections of book bindings in Poland and the restoration of such objects. The volume also allots space for reflection upon the state of tegumentology research in Poland as well as the perspectives open in this field of humanities from the border of history of art and book studies. The volume is addressed not only to scientists, librarians, archivists and workers of museums or restorers but also to wide circle of bookbinding art admirers in the antiquarians’ and collectors’ environment." (from the publisher's description) In Polish with the introduction and the abstracts in English.
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Textile and embroidered bindings (Bodleian picture books, special series)
Bodleian Library 1971 8vo (23.5 cm), 11 pp, 30 plates. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
The Birdsall Collection of Bookbinders' Finishing Tools
Toronto University of Toronto Library 1972 8vo (24 cm), 23 pp. Printed wrappers. Description of a collection of bookbinders' finishing tools from Birdsall bindery in Northampton, one of the main bookbinding firms in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In1968 the collection came into the possession of the University of Toronto Library.
Soft cover Fine
The Private Library. Third Series Volume 1:3 Autumn 1978
The Private Libraries Association 1978 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 99-138. Printed wrappers. Included "Walter de la Mare's stories for children: an analysis of variant texts" by Jane E. Gardner and "Collecting books on bookbinding and bookbindings" byFrank Broomhead.
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The Private Library. Third Series Volume 4:4 Winter 1981
The Private Libraries Association 1981 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 135-178. Printed wrappers. Included "The set of odd volumes: a postscript" by Raymond Lister, "English craft bookbinding, 1880-1980" by Bernard C. Middleton and "Collecting music hall ephemera" by Rory Lister.
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The Private Library. Third Series Volume 6:3 Autumn 1983
The Private Libraries Association 1983 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 97-144. Printed wrappers. Included "The guild of women-binders" by Ainslie C. Waller and "The book lover's library" by Clause A. Prance.
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Wilh. Raunegger: Einband-Material, 1859-1984 (German Edition)
Apfel 1984 8vo (23.5 cm), 72 pp, 9 samples of binding materials. Publisher's cloth (binding little dusted).
Hardcover Fine
Bookbinding: A Living Art
Houston The Museum of Fine Arts 1980 Oblong 4to (23 x 30.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers little rubbed, paper toned). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX September 18 - October 19, 1980. 139 entries.
Soft cover Very Good
Europäische Einbandkunst aus sechs Jahrhunderten. Beispiele aus der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer
1992 4to (32.5 cm), XVIII, 495 pp. Publisher's cloth. 219 bindings from the Otto Schäfer library described and illustrated in color.
Hardcover Fine
Encuadernación y Bibliofilia en la Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona: Imprenta Municipal - Artes del Libro. Madrid 17 de septiembre de 2015 al 10 de enero de 2016
Milenio Publicaciones S.L. 2015 8vo (24 cm), 252 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps. The catalogue of an exhibition of Catalan bookbindings, Madrid, 17 September 2015 -- 10 January 2016.
Soft cover Fine
The Library of Jean Grolier
New York The Grolier Club 1971 4to (28.5 cm), frontispiece printed in color, viii, 137 pp, [9] ff of plates. Publisher's blue and tan cloth, teg. A preliminary catalogue of Jean Grolier' library with an introductory study "Jean Grolier and the Renaissance" by Colin Eisler.
Hardcover Fine
Pictorial Manual of Bookbinding
New York The Ronald Press Company 1958 4to (31 cm), V, 40 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities, parts of paper missing, binding little scuffed, interior fine). Review copy with a slip tipped in front end-paper. Printed on strong paper. A book to delight amateur craftsmen undertaking their own binding and repairing, and everyone who is interested in bookbinding as a hobby. A minimum of text and almost 200 carefully laid out photographs and drawings enable the reader to learn the procedures for each of six different styles of binding.
Hardcover Very Good
The James de Rothschild Bequest at Waddeson Manor: Printed Books and Bookbinding. Vol. I - II
Waddeson Manor The Rothschild Foundation 2013 2 volumes 4to (31 cm), 520, [64] pp; [6] pp, PP. 521-1161. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The outstanding collection of late 17th- and 18th-century books, together with their sumptuous bindings, built up by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the last 20 years of the 19th century, match his other extraordinary collections (covered by earlier catalogues in the series), and is among the best of its kind outside Paris. This catalogue reveals for the first time the riches of his book collection. The 790 books reflect Baron Ferdinand’s interests as a refined connoisseur and amateur historian. Not interested in first editions or rare texts, he collected instead books with a distinguished provenance, those with magnificent bindings and ones illustrated by celebrated artists. Many of these also related to his interest in the history of this period, documenting social culture, costume, travel, architecture and, in particular, royal entertainment and ceremonies. Among coats-of-arms are those of Louis XIV, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour and Marie-Antoinette. The magnificent bindings are by renowned artisans working at the pinnacle of their craft: Padeloup, the Derome family and Le Monnier, who are known for lavish dentelle and mosaic styles. The two volumes provide introductory surveys of the collecting of ancient régime books, of Baron Ferdinand’s life, historical interests and manner of book collecting (using important and unpublished trade documentation), an overview of the collection by subjects, a more detailed description of the illustrated books, and another of the wide range of royal, bibliophile and other important provenance. Seven substantial chapters describe and discuss the late 17th- and 18th-century Parisian bookbinding trade and techniques of decorative gilding. They include particular studies on the work and production of leading bookbinders. The evolution of the various styles of the period are discussed, including the bindings of the Cabinet du Roi, and lists are provided of all the examples in the collection, before a final section of bookbinders’ ‘signing’ of their work, and lists of English and other book bindings at Waddesdon. Of special important is the classified index of French bookbinders’ tools, some 1000 of those on the Waddesdon books being reproduced digitally, thus providing an authoritative reference files on the best French bookbinding of this period. All 790 books are described in full detail, with title page transcriptions, collations, lists of plates, details of provenance, descriptions of bindings, and notes on the importance of the works involved. A provenance index lists all identified past owners, with brief biographical notes on them. There is also a select bibliography."
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De Geschiedenis van den Boekband
Amsterdam Amsterdamsche Grafische School 1935 8vo (22.5 cm), [12], 99 pp, 42 plates. Cont. sheep-backed marbled boards, 4 raised bands (binding rubbed, foxing to upper margins of few plates but generally very good copy of beautifully printed book).
Hardcover Very Good
Oprawa rekopisu 2470 Biblioteki Jagiellonskiej i inne oprawy tej samej pracowni introligatorskiej [Polish]
Kraków Drukarnia Narodowa 1925 4to (30 cm), 48 pp, 15 plates. Publisher's printed wrappers (wrappers frayed at extremities and on the spine and little stained). In Polish with an abstract in French. The binding of the manuscript 2470 from the Jagiellonian Library and other bindings of the same bookbinding workshop. The manuscript is the Gospel of St. Mark with commentaries written in the 12th century in France still in original blind stamped binding. The article discusses the binding of the manuscript and compares it with the bindings of t he same atelier. Copy no. 8 from 150 printed.
Soft cover Near Fine
Leergang voor het grafisch bedriff: Boekbinden / Handboekbinden
Vereniging tot bevordering van de vakopleiding in het boekbinders-, papierwaren- en enveloppenbedrijf 1955 8vo (21.5 cm), 238 pp. Publisher's cloth (front cover stained and little rubbed).
Hardcover Very Good
Iets over den boekband in den loop der eeuwen
Amsterdam Amsterdamsche Grafische School 1932 12mo (19.5 cm), 56 pp, 88 plates. Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine gilt (spine sunned, binding little rubbed, bookplate).
Hardcover Very Good
Kort Onderweijs van het Boeckenbinden. Met een aanvulling over her vergulden op de snede door Ambrosius Vermerck
Amsterdam Nico Israel 1977 2 booklets 32mo (9 cm), [48] pp (facsimile) and 12mo (17 cm), LXXXVII pp (transcription), in publisher's case (case rubbed). "A Short Instruction in the Binding of Books" by Dirk de Bray. Followed by a Note on the Gilding of the Edges by Ambrosius Vermerck. With an Introduction and a Paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf. The author, Dirk de Bray (1627?- before 1702), a bookbinder's apprentice, described and illustrated with attractive color drawings what he had learned during his apprenticeship. The manuscript that he made for his own use is the earliest surviving manual on bookbinding.
Soft cover Fine
The Zaehnsdorfs (1842-1947): Craft Bookbinders
Pinner, Middlesex Private Libraries Association 1986 4to (26 cm), 109 pp. Publisher's cloth. A history of a bookbinding firm founded in 1842 by Joseph Zaehnsdorfs and which remained under direct control of three successive generations of the Zaehnsdorfs family. Included descriptions of some Zaehnsdorfs bindings. 33 illustrations.
Hardcover Near Fine
Ambachtelijk Boekbinden
Unieboek | Het Spectrum 2001 8vo (24.5 cm), 120 pp. Publisher's cloth.
Soft cover Fine
Bookbinding
London Arco Publications 1963 8vo (22 cm), 128 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps, dj rubbed at extremities). The manual introduces fundamentals of bookbinding, giving a concise history of fine binding together with short account of the development of publishers edition binding. Among the subjects covered are technical terms, tools and equipment, preparation for rebinding, case binding, binding of a book "out of boards" and how a book is bound "in boards", other forms of binding by hand, repairing old bindings, finishing, making boxes and slip cases.
Hardcover Very Good
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Text-Book for Book-Binders and Librarians
London Pitman Publishing 1973 12mo (19 cm), 345 pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed). The fifth revised edition of the classical manual intended to help bookbinders and librarians to select sound methods of binding books.
Hardcover Very Good
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Text-Book for Book-Binders and Librarians
London Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1955 12mo (19 cm), 345 pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities). The fifth revised edition of the classical manual intended to help bookbinders and librarians to select sound methods of binding books.
Hardcover Very Good
Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries
London The Bibliographical Society 2013 8vo (25.5 cm), 185 pp. Publisher's cloth. Westminster Abbey is closely connected with the early history of printing in England: England's first printer, William Caxton, had his workshop within the monastery walls. Both the Abbey and the adjacent Westminster School have profited by the learning and generosity of generations of bishops, deans, canons and teachers, who donated or bequeathed them their collections of incunabula. 70 incunabula are described. The descriptions pay much attention to copy-specific features. About half the volumes are in contemporary or near-contemporary bindings, mostly English, but several from the Continent, and these have been identified and described by Mirjam Foot.
Hardcover New
Livres en broderie : Reliures françaises du Moyen âge à nos jours
Paris Bibliothèque Nationale de France 1995 4to (31 cm), 191 pp, Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Inscribed by Sabine Coron to Paul Culot. The catalog of an exhibition of embroidered bindings held in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, 30 november 1995-25 february1996.
Hardcover As New Inscribed by Author(s)
Irish Bookbindings
Dublin Eason and Son 1976 8vo (25 cm), 24 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps.
Hardcover Near Fine
Henri Creuzevault, 1905-1971 (French Edition)
Paris Les Éditions de Montfort 1987 16mo (15 cm), 24 pp. Printed wrappers.
Soft cover Fine
Jean-Claude Bozerian. Un moment dans la reliure en France
Bruxelles Eric Speeckaert 1979 8vo (25 cm), 109 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt. Described and illustrated 35 bindings by Jean-Claude Bozerian (1762-1840), famous representative of the French neoclassical style. Included illustrations of 54 roulettes, rubbings of tools used for decoration of spines and plates. Pp. 85-105 "Catalogue de la bibliothèque de Jean-Claude Bozerian vendu en 1846". One of 800 copies published on the occasion of 11th congress of l'Association international de bibliophilie.
Hardcover Fine
Jean-Claude Bozerian. Un moment dans la reliure en France
Bruxelles Eric Speeckaert 1979 8vo (25 cm), 109 pp. Publisher's cloth gilt. Described and illustrated 35 bindings by Jean-Claude Bozerian (1762-1840), famous representative of the French neoclassical style. Included illustrations of 54 roulettes, rubbings of tools used for decoration of spines and plates. Pp. 85-105 "Catalogue de la bibliothèque de Jean-Claude Bozerian vendu en 1846". One of 800 copies published on the occasion of 11th congress of l'Association international de bibliophilie.
Hardcover Fine
Le décor néo-classique des reliures françaises au temps du Directoire, du Consulat et de l'Empire. Dictionnaire des relieurs ayant exercé en France c. 1790 - c. 1820
Brussels Bibliotheca Wittockiana 2015 8vo (24 cm), 263 pp. Printed wrappers. A dictionary of bookbinders who worked in France in neoclassical style (1790-1820). Biographies of over 550 bookbinders with examples of their bindings. Illustrated by 61 b&w plates.
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