Author: AUDIN, MARIUS,
Title: Le Livre; Son Architecture. Sa Technique, son Illustration, sa décoration. Préface par Henri Focillon et Léon Pichon. [1e édition; First edition].
Description: Paris, G. Crès & Cie., 1924-, 1926. 2 vols. Sout 8°. Recent private clothbacked marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound-up. Hftitles (versos with provenance). (xiii), 280; (v), 62pp. Many captioned monochrome facsim. ills. in text, some decorative head-pieces, some initials printed in red and black, comparative tables in text, volume 2 with tog. 123 captioned monochrome facsim. plates featuring classical book illoustrations, both ti.-p.'s printed in red and black with publ. device, title register, erratum tipped-in on recto of french title to volume I, table of contents. aClassical french language survey of book science, in which a variety of techniques are discussed and described: bookdesign and typograpohy, illustrating and decorations. Limite3d edition of 1500 copies printed only. Good complete and untrimmed set. (copy skilfully rebound in modern clothbacked marbled boards, original wrappers bound-up).

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