Traité de la relieure des livres /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gauffecourt, Jean-Vincent Capperonnier de, 1692-1766 (Author)
Other Authors:	Benaiteau, Claude (Translator), Smyth, Elaine B. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	Parallel text in French and English.
Published:	Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1987.
Subjects:	Bookbinding > Early works to 1800. Bookbinding. Bookbinding Reliure. bookbinding (process) Boekbinden. Private press books (Publishing) > W. Thomas Taylor (Firm) Early works.
Online Access:	French equivalent / Équivalent français

Description
Item Description:	The Cushing Library/Lowman copy contains one piece of ephemera. Gauffecourt's text is transcribed from the only printed ed. of 1763, supplemented by passages unique to the Felbrigg ms. in Cambridge University Library. Both sources are entirely in French. The editorial matter is also in French and English. "Three hundred copies ... printed ... Forty copies are printed on Gampi Torinoko and are specially bound; the balance are printed on Frankfurt White"--Colophon. The Cushing Library Lowman copy is part of the Craig Jensen Collection. The Cushing Library Lowman copy is one of 260 standard copies; quarter cloth with paper sides.
Physical Description:	130 pages : 1 illustration ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-22).