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[BINDING]. ANDREWS, William Loring (1837-1920). Jean Grolier de Servier Viscount d'Aguisy. Some Account of His Life and of His Famous Library. New York: The De Vinne Press, 1892.
8o (202 x 138 mm). 14 plates (Bierstadt process and electrotypes), 11 in color and gold. Burgundy morocco by HENRI MARIUS MICHEL, sides inlaid with varicolored morocco to a retrospective interlace design, "Jean Grolier" gilt-lettered at center of front cover, citron morocco doublures, inlaid and gilt fleuron in compartments of spine, signed on front turn-ins, edges gilt (some minor rubbing to a few areas along front joint; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: given to Jane Engelhard by Mrs. W. Vincent Astor (letter from John Fleming with descriptions of the book and William Loring Andrews).
FIRST EDITION, IN A SUPERB MARIUS MICHEL BINDING, characteristic of the developing style launched by Henri Marius Michel at the end of the nineteenth century. "In 1876 [Jean Marius Michel] established an atelier jointly with his son [Henri]... While the elder Marius Michel remained faithful to the traditional styles which he continued to copy to the end of his life, his son became one of the great innovators of binding design... Their joint monograph on French bookbinding until the end of the eighteenth century, though largely superseded by subsequent investigations, was an epochal publication" (BBB Wittockiana 39).
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FIRST EDITION, IN A SUPERB MARIUS MICHEL BINDING, characteristic of the developing style launched by Henri Marius Michel at the end of the nineteenth century. "In 1876 [Jean Marius Michel] established an atelier jointly with his son [Henri]... While the elder Marius Michel remained faithful to the traditional styles which he continued to copy to the end of his life, his son became one of the great innovators of binding design... Their joint monograph on French bookbinding until the end of the eighteenth century, though largely superseded by subsequent investigations, was an epochal publication" (BBB Wittockiana 39).