May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BOOKBINDING.) Gruel, Léon. Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l'Amateur de Reliures. Profusion of plates, some in color. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Large 4to, contemporary 1/4 red morocco, spines faded, original wrappers bound in; scattered marginal foxing. Paris, 1887-1905

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first edition, limited to 1000 copies, this one of 700 on papier Vélin de Rives. Lavishly illustrated, alphabetically arranged guide to the history and development of bookbinding by a noted French binder of the period. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, page 23.