Monuments inédits ou peu connus, faisant partie du cabinet de Guillaume Libri (Guglielmo Libri), et qui se rapportent à l'histoire de l'ornementation chez différents peuples. Seconde édition, augmentée de plusieurs planches.

(Libri, G.)

Edité par No publ., Londres, 1864

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Royal 4to (50x40 cm). Contemporary halfmorocco, with morocco cornerpieces (rubbed with some damage); spine with ribbons, gilt in compartments ( first hinge with small tears); covers with marbled paper (rubbed); marbled endpapers. (Binding becomes a bit warped). (iv),14,(ii) pp. Introduction in 2 columns: French and English oppposite. Enlarged second edition, including the Supplement to the first edition (of 1862, with 60 plates) with the 5 plates marked A - E and 60 plates I - LX. Together 65 beautiful plates, lithographed in colour, hightened with gold and silver, some hand coloured. All the plates with protective tissues. The plates represents 121 bindings (in the first edition 113) from the Carolingian goldsmith's bookcovers to renaissance gold-tooled bindings containing manuscripts, block-books and printed books mainly from the 16th century and historical ornamental bindings. Also some xylographic illustrations, ancient drawings by the great masters (6) and some examples of diversity of the art of ornamentation, aboriginal workmanship, etc. - Libri was a mathematician, scientist, scholar, journalist, thief and 'Inspecteur des bibliothèques de France'. - "The bindings, all, of course stolen, offer for the first time a considerable corpus for study and comparison" (B. H. Breslauer, 1986). - Good copy with only some lightbrown spots in places (mainly to the protecting tissues), with spectacular chromolithographs 3500g.

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• Titre: Monuments inédits ou peu connus, faisant partie du cabinet de Guillaume Libri (Guglielmo Libri), et qui se rapportent à l'histoire de l'ornementation chez différents peuples. Seconde édition, augmentée de plusieurs planches.
• Éditeur: No publ., Londres
• Date de parution: 1864
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
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