Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l'Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de Livres de la Ville de Paris et d'une Étude sur les Styles de Reliure by (Binding, Zaehnsdorf) Thoinan, Ernest [pseud. of Antoine-Ernest Roquet] - 1893

Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin, 1893. First edition, no. 6 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. 32 plates (1 folding), numerous illustrations in text. vii, [i], 416, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brown morocco, covers richly gilt with wide dentelle border accented with red morocco onlays, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, with gilt tooling and red morocco onlays in the rest, maroon moiré endpapers, by Zaehnsdorf with their gilt exhibition stamp on rear pastedown. Fine, in custom morocco-tipped slipcase. First edition, no. 6 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. 32 plates (1 folding), numerous illustrations in text. vii, [i], 416, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the progression of binding styles, and a useful biographical dictionary of binders. This copy in a lavish Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding. Brenni 523