La Reliure Française

by Étienne Deville

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 64 photographic plates. 40, 4 ; 48, 4 pp. 8vo. Orange cloth, black leather spine label, original wrappers bound in. Occasional foxing. Bookplate of Julia Parker Whiteman. Item #315172 A useful and well illustrated survey of French binding from its origins through the 19th century.

• Binding: Wrappers

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