Le Papier. Recherches et Notes pour servir à l'Histoire du Papier, Principalement à Troyes et aux Environs depuis le Quatorzième Siècle

by Louis Le Clert

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, no. 376 of 711 copies. Printed by Protat on Canson et Mongolfier handmade pure rag paper. Color frontispiece, 78 plates mostly in color. xiv, 530 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Original printed wrappers covering stiff paper boards. Brian Stillwell booklabel. Item #324292 Beautifully produced history of papermaking in the environs of Troyes, France. A monumental work representing some forty years of study,

• Binding: Wrappers

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