Michon (Louis-Marie), 1900-1958

(25.5 cm), 125 (3) pp. and 45 plates (6 in colour). Publisher’s printed wrappers with original glassine jacket; publisher’s red cloth slipcase. - “Excellent study of French eighteenth century inlaid bindings… comprising a census of all such bindings known at the time” (B.H. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, New York 1986, p.21). ¶ “500 exemplaires sur marais crèvecoeur dont 458 numérotés de 1 à 458” (this copy numbered 289). Several losses to glassine jacket; otherwise a very fine copy.