[Book bindings] Collection de La Croix-Laval

Album de Cent Soixante-et-Onze Reproductions de Reliures d'Art Executées sur des Éditions de Grand Luxe par les Meilleurs Contemporains. Paris, A. Durel, 1902, (6),4 p. (incl. index by writer), 172 tinted plates (incl. 132 bis) alphabetical order by bookbinder, fine binding in gilt red full morocco, gilt top edge, 4to.

Fine copy with ex libris of P.K. Randeria, here and the with small notes in pencil on the plates, for example concerning the colour of the pictured binding. Book bindings by Carayon, Chambolle-Duru, Champs, Gruel [see elsewhere in this auction a binding by Gruel], Lortic, Magnin, Michel, Mercier, Meunier, Raparlier, Ruban, Trautz-Bauzonnet and others.