BRISCADIEU BORDEAUX
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Leather-bound volumes by Closs
VALOIS (Marguerite de)
Tales …
See original version (French)
301
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Leather-bound volumes by Closs
VALOIS (Marguerite de)
Tales …
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Leather-bound volumes by Closs
VALOIS (Marguerite de)
Tales and short stories by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, rendered in elegant language suited to the taste of the time and enriched with engravings. Amsterdam, Gallet, 1698.
2 volumes in-12; illustrated with a frontispiece (the same in both volumes) and numerous half-page engravings after GOERE.
Red morocco bindings signed CLOSS, ribbed spine, title and gilt fillets within panels, double gilt fillet framing the covers, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt inner wheel, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Included: VOLTAIRE (François Marie AROUET de): *La Henriade*, a poem in ten cantos. Paris, Chrétien fils, 1838.
In-8; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Henry IV and 4 plates. Text framed by a wide lace border.
Contemporary black calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, the letter ‘D’ surmounted by a crown in the central panel, a cracked bit at the foot, gilt lace with fleurons in the spandrels framing the covers, roulette on the cut edges at the corners, marbled edges.
Closs, a Parisian bookbinder and gilder. His workshop is recorded as having been at 14 Rue Boucher in 1838, then, from 1840, at 66 Rue Saint-Germain-L’auxerrois. He also practised gilding, a craft he learnt from Kleinhans. According to G. Trantz, the bindings known as ‘Fanfares de Thouvenin’ were produced by Closs.
Provenance: Printed bookplates by Du Noüy and M. A. Colson.
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