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La reliure: poëme didactique en six chants : précédé d'une idée analytique de cet art, suivi de notes historiques et critiques, et d'un Mémoire soumis a` la Société d'encouragement, ainsi qu'au jury d'Exposition de 1819, relatif a` des moyens de perfectionnem
by Lesné
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Tuxedo Park, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Lesné, de l'imprimerie de Gillé, 1820. First edition, signed.. Very Good. Octavo (19 cm); [6], 246 pages. In contemporary polished dark quarter leather over marbled boards, titled in gilt with gilt ornaments tooled onto spine. Autographed by the author opposite title page. Bookseller's ticket of Librairie Raymond Clavreuil. Edges a bit scuffed and worn at corners. Scattered light foxing. References: Thoinan, E. "Relieurs français," page 339; Pollard & Potter, "Early bookbinding manuals," 49; Ramsden, C.F. "French bookbinders," page 129; Vicaire, V, 259f.
Original edition of the first, and so far only bookbinding manual in heroic couplets, or in any verse form. The poem covers the development of bookbinding, shop techniques, marbling, and even commercial marketing. According to Guido Giannini ("Il legatore di libri," p. 314), Lesné drowned in the Seine.
Original edition of the first, and so far only bookbinding manual in heroic couplets, or in any verse form. The poem covers the development of bookbinding, shop techniques, marbling, and even commercial marketing. According to Guido Giannini ("Il legatore di libri," p. 314), Lesné drowned in the Seine.
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- Bookseller
- Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6720
- Title
- La reliure:
- Author
- Lesné
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, signed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Lesné, de l'imprimerie de Gillé
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1820
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Didactic poetry binding industrial arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian Books;
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Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
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Tuxedo Park, New York
About Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio owes its name and its inspiration to the traditional Italian studio bibliografico. These small antiquarian bookshops, typically run by individuals who combine deep scholarship with a love of the printed object, remind us that underlying the words "study" and "studio" is the Latin term for zeal and devotion, studium. Since 1993, my goal has been to match discerning collectors with extraordinary books and manuscripts.
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