Art de Fabriquer Toutes Sortes d'Ouvrages en Papier, Pour l' Instruction et l'Amusement des Jeunes Gens des Deux Sexes

by A. de Bécourt

$850 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

First edition

Paris: Audot, Éditeur, 1828. Twelvemo, measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches: viii, 9 -106, with hand-colored frontispiece and 21 engraved folding plates inserted after text, 12 pages of publisher’s advertisements bound at rear. Original pink printed wrappers, uncut. Corners creased, wrappers lightly soiled, scattered pinpoint foxing. First edition of this ingenious guide to paper engineering, teaching applied

• Binding: Wrappers

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