BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas; DEROME, Nicolas-Denis jr. (binder). Poésies.
Paris, Didot l’ainé, 1781.
£ 2,750
12mo (134x176mm), pp. [ii] 180, 192. Two vols. in one, contemporary blue-black morocco gilt, covers with border of small leaf, double fillet and fleurs-de-lys rool tools, smooth spine divided into six compartments, gilt-lettered in one, a repeated gilt panel of small tools in the rest, broad edges and turn-ins gilt with circles, small flowers and other rolls, pink silk linings and page markers, a.e.g., by Derome le Jeune, with his ticket, slight wear to upper corners and headcap; 19th-century half morocco chemise and morocco-edged slipcase. Half-titles, ornamental woodcut head- and tailpiece decorations.
Provenance:
1) Mortimer L. Schiff, bookplate (sale, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1938, lot 660)
2) P. Desq, bookplate.
Seymour de Ricco, French Bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection (New York and Paris 1935), I. 58. (PL)