Order Nr. 5919 PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.
PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.

PIERRE LEGRAIN, RELIEUR. REPERTOIRE DESCRIPTIF ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE MILLE DEUX TRENTE-SIX RELIURES.

(Bookbinding).

Introduction by Professor Jacques Millot.

  • Paris: Libraire Auguste Blaizot, 1965.
  • 4to.
  • signatures loosely inserted in a white stiff paper wrapper, brown cloth chemise with white paper spine label, brown cloth slipcase.
  • xxxiii, 205 pages with seven plates in full color and 243 reproductions in collotype.

Price: $400.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 5919

Text in French. Printed in an edition limited to 600 numbered copies, of this is one of 500 copies numbered 101 to 600. (S-K 6509, Brenni no.657). Leather bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman. Minor fading of spine. Slipcase lightly bumped at bottom corners. Contents are in fine condition.

Magnificent book covering 250 art-deco bindings of this modern French bookbinder (243 heliogravure reproductions and 7 full color plates). Also included is a descriptive and bibliographical directory of 1,236 bindings, index of public and private libraries, index of bookbinders who worked for Pierre Legrain, alphabetical table of bound works, bibliography, and a general table of contents.

Pierre Legrain (1888-1929), was an extraordinary artist with multiple talents, sought after by bibliophiles, Art Deco lovers and collectors of exceptional furniture.