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Title: Très Beaux Livres , Empire - Restauration - Époque Romantique - Éditions originales. (Bookdealer's catalogue).
Description: .: 3l. London/Paris, (1938), in-4°, 28 x 22.5 cm, 104 pp + 111 plates of which 8 coloured, with 358 items, with index of binders, sewn, orig. wrapper. Nearly mint copy. The plates depict in all 159 bindings of the French Romantic period bound by great names such as Simier, Bozérian , Thouvenin , Boutigny, Lenègre...According the introduction by Maggs Ltd. this collection of bindings was only surpassed by the Descamps-Scrive and Beraldi libraries. The 6 coloured plates depicting bindings, printed in relief , have their decomposed colour and relief plates sewn in at the end. .

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Price: EUR 134.00 = appr. US$ 145.64 Seller: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij
- Book number: 31090