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RENOUVIER, Jules (1804-60). Des portraits d'auteurs dans les livres du XVe siècle. Preface by Georges Duplessis. Paris: Louis Perrin at Lyon for Auguste Aubry, 1863.
8o (220 x 130 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of four copies. Vignettes and criblé initials. Contemporary red morocco by Chambolle père, roll-tooled borders and signature CHAMBOLLE-DURU on turn-ins. Provenance: M.G. (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on portraits in incunables. 200 copies were issued on ordinary paper, 10 on Holland paper, 4 COPIES WERE PULLED ON VELLUM. Aubry was one of the official booksellers to the Société des Bibliophiles français.
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FIRST EDITION of the first monograph on portraits in incunables. 200 copies were issued on ordinary paper, 10 on Holland paper, 4 COPIES WERE PULLED ON VELLUM. Aubry was one of the official booksellers to the Société des Bibliophiles français.