Les reliures d’art à la Bibliothèque Nationale.
Paris: Rouveyre, 1888. First and only edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Eighty plates of bindings, executed by Aron Frères, with printed tissue guards. Fine in very good calf-tipped slipcase. Light wear to slipcase. Ink inscription on a preliminary blank: “Cécile Warnery, cadeau de Caroline Marie Warnery—Schlumberger.” We cannot be sure which member of the famous Schlumberger family this is. Original pictorial wrappers bound in. Handsomely bound in full mottled calf. Gilt spine, tooled in compartments, with brown morocco labels, gilt triple rules on covers, all edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Large quarto. 7 x 10.”. 51, [1], xxii,, [2] pp. Item #14269
Price: $750.00