Author: Grolier Club
Title: The Catalogue of Books from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past with Arms or Devices Upon the Bindings: Exhibited at the Grolier Club in the Month of January 1895
Description: New York, Grolier Club, 1895. Hardcover. Dark green cloth boards with gilt title and Grolier Club design on front cover, untrimmed pages, bw frontispiece with tissue guard, xii, 75 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of bw plates with tissue guards. One of three hundred and fifty copies on Holland paper, printed in the month of January 1895. Includes a list of the 24 illustrations included, such as: Marie De Medicis (frontispiece); Jean Grolier; Tho. Maioli,; Francois 1er; Emperor Charles V and Francois 1er; Emperor Charles V of Germany; Henri II and Diane de Poitiers; Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Henry IV; The First Arms of De Thou; De Thou and Marie Barbancon; De Thou and Gasparde de la Chastre: Ascribed to Demetrius Canevarius; Cardinal Richelieu; Anne of Austria, Wife of Louis XIII; Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I; Harlay de Chanvallon, Archbishop of Paris; Le Duc de Luynes; Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Called La Grande Mademoiselle; Comte D'Hoym; Marie Leczinska, Wife of Louis XV; Madame de Pompadour; La Comtesse du Barry; and Marie Antoinette. Also includes 244 catalogued books with brief descriptions including: From the Library of Henry III 1552-1589; Charles the V, 1509-1558; Thomas Maioli Circa 1550; Louis XV 1710-1774; Marie Antoinette 1755-1793 and many others. VG (light shelfwear to boards, corners bumped, pages are very clean) .

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