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DERÔME, Leopold. La Reliure de Luxe. Le Livre et l'Amateur. Illustrations inédites, reproduites d'après les types originaux par Aron Frères, et dessins de G. Fraipont, C. Kurner, M. Perret... J. Adeline. Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, 1888.
Imperial 8o (265 x 180 mm). Folding frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 65 half-tone plates, including the frontispiece, numerous historiated and ornamental head and tail vignettes. In a signed contemporary binding, richly gilt and inlaid, by Joseph Bretault: dark blue crushed levant morocco, on both covers outer frame of double gilt fillets, central frame formed by triple gilt fillets, that on the outside forming four cabochons on the outer corners, the upper half of the central frame of the upper cover intertwined by a large olive branch, its leaves inlaid in citron morocco, its stem in marbled brown calf, five raised bands on spine, the second compartment lettered in gilt, the others with quadruple frames interspersed with olive twigs, each with two citron leaves; doublures of orange crushed morocco, in centers large frames of multiple gilt fillets forming a knot in each corner, endleaves of blue silk, second pair of glazed comb-marbled endleaves, original pictorial wrappers bound in.
A highly characteristic, lavishly produced "belle époque" treatise on contemporary bindings, in an early Art Nouveau binding of high quality. Derôme (b. 1833, year of death unknown, cf. DBF) was librarian at the Sorbonne and wrote several books on romantic and contemporaneous book production. Bretault (1856-1903), was educated in the atelier of the excellent bookbinder Victor Champs, and established himself in 1880, becoming, according to Devauchelle (III, p. 127) one of the foremost binders at the beginning of the last century.
Imperial 8
A highly characteristic, lavishly produced "belle époque" treatise on contemporary bindings, in an early Art Nouveau binding of high quality. Derôme (b. 1833, year of death unknown, cf. DBF) was librarian at the Sorbonne and wrote several books on romantic and contemporaneous book production. Bretault (1856-1903), was educated in the atelier of the excellent bookbinder Victor Champs, and established himself in 1880, becoming, according to Devauchelle (III, p. 127) one of the foremost binders at the beginning of the last century.