first edition leather_bound
1890 · Paris
by Bosquet, E.
Paris: Librairie Polytechnique, Baudry et Cie, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half navy morocco and marbled boards, backstrip uniformly faded to brown. Very good. 324 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Sixteen plates hors texte and seventeen text figures. Glossary. Index. Authoritative treatise on bookbinding by a prominent expert. Illustrations of bindings and binding equipment. Minor age-toning mostly marginal, light extremity rubbing, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, book label, marbled endpapers, tight copy. (Inventory #: 17683)