published gruel engelmann (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Beautiful specimen. Extraordinary edition of the Engelmann house in Paris, which offers a splendid print made in the manner of a medieval manuscript, with Gothic letters, large initials, and color text framed in beautiful gold borders and in full color, with floral motifs, drawings with illuminated figures. All edges gilt, housed in original slipcase, accompanied by a rich and careful binding.Chromolithographic title-page, with gilt decoration, within an architectural border, each page within a chromolithographic border, in gold and various colors, four full-page illustrations, printed in gold and sepia. The last four pages are reserved for "Souvenirs de famille" and are bordered and ruled in gilt. Sepia and gilt printer's device on the final leaf. A fine, clean copy. Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839) was a Franco-German lithographer and chromolithographer, largely credited with bringing chromolithography to France. A wonderful and pristine binding by Lucien Broca, the superb and technically premier finisher of his day, who finished many of Sarah Prideaux's fine bindings. Bound in full rich navy blue crushed morocco with leaf and vine design work on both covers and similar designs on panels on spine, attractive dentelles with parallel ruling on endpapers. Bears Broca's personal gilt stamped pallet on front lower dentelle (scarce indeed), "BOUND BY L. BROCA." Book is fine. An extremely rare and sought after binding by the French-born bookbinder who worked more or less full-time with Sarah Prideaux around 1901, and really only solo'd a short couple of years before falling into ill-health. Fine copies of his signed bindings are vanishingly scarce. Slipcase with a bit of sunning and rubbing to the edges. book.