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Hardcover. French/English language text. 14pgs., 2 unnumbered pages, E [i.e. 5] leaves of plates, LX leaves of plates : color illustrations, color facsimiles (chromolithographs). GIlt lettering on 5 raised band spine. Text of introduction in French and English in parallel columns. Good. Cover has general wear, corner/edge damage. Damage at cover hinge, leather peeling. Bookblock has age toning, page ege damage, darkening. Interior pages have ahe toning. Missing plates 30 and 52.

Royal 4to (50x40 cm). Contemporary halfmorocco, with morocco cornerpieces (rubbed with some damage); spine with ribbons, gilt in compartments ( first hinge with small tears); covers with marbled paper (rubbed); marbled endpapers. (Binding becomes a bit warped). (iv),14,(ii) pp. Introduction in 2 columns: French and English oppposite. Enlarged second edition, including the Supplement to the first edition (of 1862, with 60 plates) with the 5 plates marked A - E and 60 plates I - LX. Together 65 beautiful plates, lithographed in colour, hightened with gold and silver, some hand coloured. All the plates with protective tissues. The plates represents 121 bindings (in the first edition 113) from the Carolingian goldsmith's bookcovers to renaissance gold-tooled bindings containing manuscripts, block-books and printed books mainly from the 16th century and historical ornamental bindings. Also some xylographic illustrations, ancient drawings by the great masters (6) and some examples of diversity of the art of ornamentation, aboriginal workmanship, etc. - Libri was a mathematician, scientist, scholar, journalist, thief and 'Inspecteur des bibliothèques de France'. - "The bindings, all, of course stolen, offer for the first time a considerable corpus for study and comparison" (B. H. Breslauer, 1986). - Good copy with only some lightbrown spots in places (mainly to the protecting tissues), with spectacular chromolithographs 3500g.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 256. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1862 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: French Pages: 256.