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Rare Books and Fine Bindings 1463-1845. Catalogue 106.

Jean  de Gonet

1983
Agate-polished clouded brown flexible calf, sides scored to the shape of a pointed envelope flap, the point dotted in blind and decorated with a small black metal fastener attached by the golden head of a nail, next to the spine a strip of ebony, from which emerge three exposed cords continuing across the spine, two black, and one brown. Doublures of greyish-brown suede, endleaves of light-grey handmade paper. Signed on upper doublure. Collection of B.H. Breslauer. Published 1982, bound 1983.
305 x 215 cm
published by Martin Breslauer, Inc. , Paris

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