Manuel de relieur, dans toutes ses parties; précédé des arts de l'assembleur, du satineur, de la plieuse, de la brocheuse, et suivi des arts du marbreur sur tranches, du doreur sur tranches et sur cuir.
Paris.
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1831.
Deuxiéme édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée..
12mo.
[6], viii, 286pp. With a half-title and three folding engraved plates. Without the terminal publisher's 36pp advertisement catalogue found in some copies. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting lettering-piece. Extremities worn, upper board detached, loss to spine. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. With 28pp of manuscript notes (and a double-page table) in a single hand to rear.
The revised and enlarged edition of French polymath Louis-Sébastien Lenormand's (1757-1837) popular bookbinding manual, a part of the Encyclopaedia Roret, first published in 1827, frequently reprinted and re-edited until at least 1923.
This copy contains extensive manuscript notes on the production of leather bindings, in a single near contemporary Dutch hand, as well as a table relating to sizes of binder's type tools.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 16435
This copy contains extensive manuscript notes on the production of leather bindings, in a single near contemporary Dutch hand, as well as a table relating to sizes of binder's type tools.
