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GROLIER, Jean (1479-1565) -- LE ROUX DE LINCY, Adrien-Jean-Victor (1806-1869). Recherches sur Jean Grolier, sur sa vie et sur sa bibliothèque. Paris: L. Potter, 1866.
8o. 6 plates, including 5 chromolithographs, mostly folding or double-page. Modern half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, partially unopenend.
FIRST EDITION of the classic monograph on Grolier's library, not superseded until Gabriel Austin's Library of Jean Grolier (New York: Grolier Club, 1971). Breslauer, Uses, p. 16 ("The first classic of bookbinding literature").
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FIRST EDITION of the classic monograph on Grolier's library, not superseded until Gabriel Austin's Library of Jean Grolier (New York: Grolier Club, 1971). Breslauer, Uses, p. 16 ("The first classic of bookbinding literature").