[Rarebooks] FS: Gravure en France

[Nina W. Matheson]

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Blum, Andre.   Les origines de la gravure en France. Les estampes sur bois 
et sur metal. Les incunables xylographiques.  Paris et Bruxelles, Librairie 
nationale d'art et d'histoire, G. Vanoest, Editeur, 1927. Original printed 
wrappers. Ownership signature of E[lizabeth] Mongan on the front endpaper. 
Some early leaves including the title-page foxed, joints rubbed, wrappers 
darkened at the edges and soiled, otherwise very good, largely unopened. 92 
pp., followed by 78 full-page plates. $100

Duplessis, Georges.   Histoire de la gravure en France.  Paris, Rapilly, 
Libraire-Editeur, 1861. Original blue printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, an 
amazing survival in this condition. Bigmore & Wyman, v. 1 ("This is the 
standard work on the history of French engraving"). 408 pp. $100

Blum, Andre.   The origins of printing and engraving. Translated from the 
French by Harry Miller Lydenberg.  New York, Charles Scribner's, 1940. 
Original two-colored cloth. Fine in dust jacket missing piece at head of 
backstrip. Translation of Les origines du papier, de l'imprimerie et de la 
gravure. First American edition.  $65

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