BIB_ID
425961
Accession number
MA 22737
Creator
Dubois d'Enghien, Hector, author.
Display Date
Belgium? approximately 1954.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (approximately 529 pages) bound : portrait ; 21.3 x 17 cm
Notes
Title from item.
The author of this two-volume compilation was a trade bookbinder, son of the prominent Brussels binder Joseph-François Dubois d'Enghien (1841-1923). He took over his father's business ca. 1918 and formed a partnership with the finisher Edmond Dooms in 1923. An accomplished scholar, Hector Dubois d'Enghien wrote a history of bookbinding in Belgium, published in 1954, and titled "Le reliure en Belgique".
The author of this two-volume compilation was a trade bookbinder, son of the prominent Brussels binder Joseph-François Dubois d'Enghien (1841-1923). He took over his father's business ca. 1918 and formed a partnership with the finisher Edmond Dooms in 1923. An accomplished scholar, Hector Dubois d'Enghien wrote a history of bookbinding in Belgium, published in 1954, and titled "Le reliure en Belgique".
Provenance
Stamp of Hector Dubois d'Enghien; purchased in 2019.
Summary
A biographical dictionary of French bookbinders, the entries arranged alphabetically, with the main body of the text followed by lengthy "Addenda" on pages 417-500, listing binders not previously mentioned by him or included in his cited standard sources, including Charles Ramsden's French Bookbinders, 1789-1848, which appeared in 1950 while he was writing this manuscript; the addenda is followed by a "Supplément" containing entries for 82 additional binders, numbered by the author but not presented in alphabetical order. In addition to printed sources, the author also draws on archival sources (e.g., p. 353), as well as personal experience in the trade for his entries, not hesitating, in some instances, to express his opinions of contemporaries such as Paul Bonet, whose work he considers to be overrated but interesting as cultural artifacts akin to "products of surrealism and jazz."
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