UZANNE, Octave. La Reliure Moderne artistique et fantaisiste. Paris: Rouveyre, 1887.
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UZANNE, Octave. La Reliure Moderne artistique et fantaisiste. Paris: Rouveyre, 1887.

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UZANNE, Octave. La Reliure Moderne artistique et fantaisiste. Paris: Rouveyre, 1887.

8o. Engraved frontispiece and 72 photographic illustrations of fine bindings. Contemporary brown morocco upper cover signed GEORG COLLIN with multicolored morocco inlays and gilt lines depicting a variety of bookbindings in different styles, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered in two, brown morocco turn-ins gilt with brocade doublures and linings (upper joint repaired). Provenance: Magarete Litten (bookplate); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 1 June 1959.

LIMITED EDITION, number 69 of 1200 copies. Bound by Georg Collin in Berlin a few years after he took over his father's bindery in 1886. Collin died in 1914 and was the last "Royal Bookbinder" to the German Emperor.