LE BIBLIOPHILE FRANCAIS

Sub-title:  Gazette illustrée des Amateurs de Livres, d'Estampes et de haute curiosité.

Publication Date: 1868-1873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

First Editions, 7 volumes published between 1868 and 1873. A complete set of what must have been one of the most impressive bibliographical publications of 19th Century France - indeed Europe.

Copiously illustrated with facsimiles and colour reproductions, (many of which are fold-out and impressively large) of remarkable manuscripts and bindings throughout history.

In contemporary 1/4 calf with raised bands and blue labels at one stage this set must have been particularly eye-catching but sadly time has taken its toll somewhat. In various states of condition ranging from Good/VG to Fair only.

Most with substantial off-setting in places, many tissue-guards missing from the plates. Some occasional spotting and damp-staining to odd volumes but not terribly so.

The bindings are overall in Fair condition with several split (and one entirely loose) backstrips and corners.

This has been a working set and as well as bearing the bookplate of their original owner at the front pastedown, a small library label for an old book-auction house can also be found there (each volume).