Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BINDING.) Bibliothèque Nationale. Les Plus Belles Reliures de la Réunion des Bibliothèques Nationales. 42 plates showing bindings from the 6th to early 19th centuries in French libraries. Folio, 375x277 mm; 15x11 inches, modern dark brown morocco by Joseph Newman handsomely gilt in Renaissance style with interlacing double-fillet rectangles and lozenge on covers, stamp-signed "Pride's Crossing Bindery" on spine and "J.A.N." on front lower turn-in; top edges trimmed and gilt. number 267 of 600 copies. Paris, (1929)