[BIBLIOTHEQUE ROUGE ET OR SOUVERAINE] - MEYNIER (Yvonne) -Livre Rare Book
Box Cut-Out Binding. CROISET le Pere. – Exercices De Piete pour tous les dimanches et les fetes mobiles De L’Annee …
178343848Lyon: chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. 1783. 12mo. 17x 9.5cm Volume 5. In original full mottled calf real raised bands panels ornated full gilt decorated marbled endpapers edges stained red in contemporary binding style some wear on the edges hollow binding with the rear marbled endpaper re-used to line the hollow out recess which continue from page 30 the back interior box glued. – When opened the interior hollowed recess is not noticeable however the book is uncommonly light in very good sound condition. very good. These hollow book boxes were common before after the second war in the book stals on the banks of the Siene. They were made from broken sets which were common in that era and were considered a great keepsake in the growing tourist trade. As a bookseller you never had any money to hide away however we did keep the cash register float in a book box made from a small folio “Boy’s Own Annual 1912†for about forty years shelved with the reference and bibliography section behind the counter until it fell apart in complete exhaustion. chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. unknown
