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Lot 84

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Fine Bindings] [Club Bindery] Louys, Pierre Byblis

Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, libraire-editeur, 1901. First and limited edition, #16/100 numbered copies on Japon paper. 8vo. Illustrated in color and in black and white by Henri Caruchet. Bound in full navy blue crushed levant, elaborately gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; original stiff illustrated wrappers bound in; by The Club Bindery, 1903. An outstanding copy.

The Club Bindery (1898-1909) was an American fine book bindery started by several members of New York's Grolier Club in order to bring the art of fine bookbinding to America and to bind books to the standard of Europe's finest binderies.

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).

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