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RENOUVIER, Jules (1804-60). Des gravures en bois dans les livres d' Anthoine Vérard, Maître Libraire, Imprimeur, Enlumineur & Tailleur sur bois, de Paris. 1485-1512. Paris: Louis Perrin at Lyon for Auguste Aubry, 1859.
8o (210 x 135 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of a few copies only (perhaps four). Two plates, vignettes. Contemporary gold-tooled olive-brown morocco, border of hatched ornament, signed on turn-ins by the binder, BERNARD DAVID, and the finisher, JULES DOMONT, top-edges gilt. Provenance: Robert Hoe (1911 Anderson sale, Part I, lot 2763).
FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on Vérard, EXTREMELY RARE ON VELLUM. David had been a finisher in Gruel's atelier before establishing his own shop in 1855; Domont, a leading finisher of the Second Empire and the Third Republic, worked for Marius-Michel, Smeers, David and Lortic, and became instructor at the Chambre Syndicale de la Reliure -- See Devauchelle III, 257. BBB Wittockiana 40.
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FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on Vérard, EXTREMELY RARE ON VELLUM. David had been a finisher in Gruel's atelier before establishing his own shop in 1855; Domont, a leading finisher of the Second Empire and the Third Republic, worked for Marius-Michel, Smeers, David and Lortic, and became instructor at the Chambre Syndicale de la Reliure -- See Devauchelle III, 257. BBB Wittockiana 40.