La Reliure, Poème didactique en Six Chants.
3 p.l., 382 pp. (pp. 377-78 misbound), one leaf. 8vo, cont. polished green calf, signed at foot of spine “Relié par l’Auteur,” double gilt fillet frame round sides, floral devices in each corner, spine richly gilt, rose colored endpapers, a.e.g. Paris: chez l’Auteur, J. Renouard, 1827.
Second edition, one of 125 copies printed on “vélin grand-raisin” (this copy numbered in gold “39”), of an extraordinary bookbinding craft manual in the form of a long poem in heroic couplets, with extensive historical and technical notes in prose. Several additional texts appear in this edition, including Lettre d’un Relieur français à un... More