Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, n.d. (circa 1930s). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 182 pages and 135 plates of bindings including some in full color. Catalogue no.12 issued by this bookselling firm. (Brenni no.288). The catalogue has descriptions of 398 bindings with well over one-third of them illustrated. The descriptions are detailed and the text is aided by indices to provenance and authors. Crease through middle of dust jacket; chipping along edges of jacket being more.....
Frankfurt A.M. Joseph Baer & Co., n.d. (after 1927). small 4to. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in. 128 pages. S-K 1455 and 1456. 412 and 288 items respectively in these excellent catalogues. described. Many plates of illustrations. Text in German. The text is printed on cheap paper; illustrations on better paper.
