BOOKBINDING THOINAN ERNEST [pseud of Antoine Ernest Roquet]

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THOINAN, ERNEST [pseud. of Antoine-Ernest Roquet]. Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). 32 plates. Half-title. 4to, contemporary purple silk over boards, richly embroidered to all-over floral pattern in beige and green, morocco lettering piece, original wrappers bound in; contents clean. Paris, 1893

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first edition of a biographical dictionary of early French binders, also including a historical survey of bookbinding in Paris. number 180 of 550 copies, distinctively bound, from an edition of 650.