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[FRANCE, Anatole (1844-1924, pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole THIBAULT).] Le Livre du Bibliophile. Paris: J. Claye for Alphonse Lemerre, 1874.
12o (164 x 97 mm). PRINTED ON WHATMAN PAPER, no. 11 of 100 copies, signed with initials by the publisher. Title in red and black with publisher's device.
MOSAIC BINDING BY HENRI-FRANçOIS MARIUS MICHEL FOR HIMSELF: gold-tooled chestnut brown morocco, sides inlaid with black morocco to a retrospective interlace design, inlaid and gilt fleuron in compartments of spine, signed on front turn-ins, top-edges gilt, others uncut. Folding cloth box. Provenance: Henri-François Marius Michel (1846-1923, bookplate, binding), PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to him by the publisher: "à Monsieur Marius, fils. Hommage bien sympathique, A. Lemerre" -- Claude Guérin (Paris sale, 7 December 1990, lot 79).
FIRST EDITION. This is a most delicate traditional binding by the younger Marius Michel, who later would become an important innovator of binding design. BBB Harvard 70.
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MOSAIC BINDING BY HENRI-FRANçOIS MARIUS MICHEL FOR HIMSELF: gold-tooled chestnut brown morocco, sides inlaid with black morocco to a retrospective interlace design, inlaid and gilt fleuron in compartments of spine, signed on front turn-ins, top-edges gilt, others uncut. Folding cloth box. Provenance: Henri-François Marius Michel (1846-1923, bookplate, binding), PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to him by the publisher: "à Monsieur Marius, fils. Hommage bien sympathique, A. Lemerre" -- Claude Guérin (Paris sale, 7 December 1990, lot 79).
FIRST EDITION. This is a most delicate traditional binding by the younger Marius Michel, who later would become an important innovator of binding design. BBB Harvard 70.