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Album de 96 dessins originaux et maquettes, ayant servi à l'exécution de reliures.

Title
Album de 96 dessins originaux et maquettes, ayant servi à l'exécution de reliures.
Author
Legrain, Pierre, 1889-1929.
Publication
[ca. 1916-27?]

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Still imageBy appointment only Spencer Coll. MS. 185Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description
[3] blank l., [93] l. of mounted designs, [6] blank l.; 44 cm.
Genre/Form
  • Mosaic bindings (Binding) – France – 20th century.
  • Design drawings.
  • Drawings.
Note
  • Title supplied from citation in Société de la reliure originale. Pierre Legrain, relieur. Paris, 1965, p. 82 (no. 577).
  • Chiefly colored maquettes on stiff paper, many with artist's ms. annotations in pencil. Nos. 26-28 mounted on leaf [26]; nos. 33-34 mounted on leaf [31].
  • Binding, by Legrain, of black morocco, blind-tooled and gilt, with inlays of black calf and tan and dark blue morocco; doublures of red morocco, gilt, the front blind-tooled, with inlays of black, the back with inlays of black, brown and dark brown (maquettes for the doublures included in the volume). Suede endleaves. In leather-lined slipcase with black morocco trim.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. MS. 185
OCLC
NYPG804314095-B
Author
Legrain, Pierre, 1889-1929.
Title
Album de 96 dessins originaux et maquettes, ayant servi à l'exécution de reliures.
Imprint
[ca. 1916-27?]
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Local Subject
Drawing -- Original drawings -- Legrain.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. MS. 185
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