Lot n° 104
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DEVAUCHELLE Roger. La Reliure en France, de ses origines à n - Lot 104
DEVAUCHELLE Roger. La Reliure en France, de ses origines à nos jours. Paris, Rousseau-Girard, 1959-1961; 3 strong vol. in-4, contemporary bindings in red half-maroquin with corners, spines decorated with gilt fillets, gilt heads, covers and spine.
First edition with numerous reproductions in the text and plates outside the text in black and in colour. The work is useful for the observations that the author has made as a technician of the art of bookbinding, by the first-hand information he has been able to glean about the practitioners since the middle of the 19th century and especially by the direct testimony he delivers about those he has known. - Attached by the same author:
AN UNUSUAL CHAPTER OF BOOKBINDING IN FRANCE: the tragic fate of Eugène Varlin, a bookbinder's worker under the Second Empire. Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1965; booklet in-8. Daffodil paper.
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