A descriptive catalog of 100 items in the Réserve Précieuse, issued on the retirement of Franz Schauwers, its former head. 30 black-and-white plates at the rear of the volume accompany the many in-text illustrations, mostly in black-and-white with a few containing highlights or text printed in red. The seventh in a series of exhibition catalogues organized by the Bibliothèque Albert Ier in Brussels. With the bookplate of a private book-collector's club on verso of first blank page (stamped withdrawn). Corners bumped extending into pages.