PEIGNOT, Étienne-Gabriel (1767-1849). Essai historique et archéologique sur la reliure des livres, et sur l'état de la librarie chez les anciens . Dijon: Voctor Lagier and Paris: Jules Renouard, 1834. 8 o (197 x 129 mm). Half-title. 2 plates. Nineteenth-century calf, spine gilt, green and black morocco lettering pieces, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies of the first scholarly monograph on book binding, preceding Hannett's Bibliopegia by three years.
PEIGNOT, Étienne-Gabriel (1767-1849). Essai historique et archéologique sur la reliure des livres, et sur l'état de la librarie chez les anciens . Dijon: Voctor Lagier and Paris: Jules Renouard, 1834. 8 o (197 x 129 mm). Half-title. 2 plates. Nineteenth-century calf, spine gilt, green and black morocco lettering pieces, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies of the first scholarly monograph on book binding, preceding Hannett's Bibliopegia by three years.
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