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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Monuments inédits : ou peu connus / faisant partie du cabinet de Guillaume Libri ; et qui se rapportent à l'histoire des arts du dessin considérés dans leur application à l'ornement des livres.

Accession number
PML 152785 JPW 655
Creator
Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869.
Published
Londres : Dulau & Cie. éditeurs, 37, Soho Square, 1862.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Comprises a 14 page introduction and 60 col. plates numbered I-LX, depicting bookbindings on manuscripts and early printed books, including jeweled and metal bindings, as well as examples of calligraphy and manuscript illuminations.
Text in French and English.
Description
14 p., [1], 60 leaves of plates : ill. (chromolithographs) ; 51 x 41 cm
Provenance
James S. North (bookplate); from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
20th-century red morocco, gilt, marbled endpapers, bound by James Sharp North (Brighton).
Classification
Department