GROLIER, Jean -- LE ROUX DE LINCY, Adrien-Jean-Victor. Researches Concering Jean Grolier, His Life and His Library . Edited by Baron Roger Portalis. Translated and revised by Carolyn Shipman. New York: De Vinne Press for The Grolier Club, 1907. Large 8 o. 14 fine chromolithographic plates. Original half morocco, spine gilt-lettered (minor fading to spine, slightly rubbed); publisher's board slipcase. Provenance : John Howell (bookplate). ONE OF 300 COPIES. The revised and updated English translation of Le Roux de Lincy's Recherches sur Jean Grolier, sur sa vie et sur sa bibliothèque (Paris, 1866), "the first classic of bookbinding literature" (Breslauer, p. 16).
GROLIER, Jean -- LE ROUX DE LINCY, Adrien-Jean-Victor. Researches Concering Jean Grolier, His Life and His Library . Edited by Baron Roger Portalis. Translated and revised by Carolyn Shipman. New York: De Vinne Press for The Grolier Club, 1907. Large 8 o. 14 fine chromolithographic plates. Original half morocco, spine gilt-lettered (minor fading to spine, slightly rubbed); publisher's board slipcase. Provenance : John Howell (bookplate). ONE OF 300 COPIES. The revised and updated English translation of Le Roux de Lincy's Recherches sur Jean Grolier, sur sa vie et sur sa bibliothèque (Paris, 1866), "the first classic of bookbinding literature" (Breslauer, p. 16).
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