Accession number:
PML 88673
Published:
[France?] : [publisher not identified], [18--?]
Description:
1 print
Credit:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
Caption title from head of plates.
Five engravings depicting the process of paper and bookmaking using handpresses and the process of selling them through a bookseller.
Each engraving has a caption below: No. 1 Brochure des livres -- No. 2 Endossement des livres -- No. 3 Couture et dorure -- No. 4 Presses a rogner et a presser -- No. 5 Magazin du libraire.
"P. 161" at top right corner of print.
Binding:
Matted.
Provenance:
Far Gallery (New York); from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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