(BINDINGS EPHEMERA) Group of 6 binding sample blocks by Har

Sale 2295 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 300

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150

(BINDINGS--EPHEMERA.) Group of 6 binding sample blocks by Hardy and Pilon. 6 samples with botanical designs of multi-colored calf over brown morocco; gilt-stamped borders, bands, the title "Nature in Ornament / - / Hardy and Pilon," and volume numbers. 228x60mm; 9x2 1/4 inches; versos with indecipherable painted wording, but one bearing the label of the Adams Express Company, then a formidable freight and cargo transport service and now the distinguished equity fund company, with the stamped date of October 8, 1910, leather shows moderate rubbing along raised bands and corners. Baltimore (?), circa 1910

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French binders Henri Hardy and Gaston Pilon were master craftsmen who, before emigrating to the United States, worked for Trautz-Bauzonnet, Cuzin-Mercier, Chambolle-Duru, and Marius Michel. Having arrived in Cleveland working as The Club Bindery and The Rowfant Bindery, they settled in Long Island with Doubleday, Page under their Country Life Press, employing the imprint "The French Binders, Garden City."