Le Bréviaire de Philippe le Bon
Year: 1929
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Paris; Rousseau a.o.
Category: Arts &tc.
Two volumes, folio. Both volumes in a portfolio in a good condition, the portfolios again in carton cases quite worn at the edges. One b/w plate with a smal marginal tear, the rest of the contents in a fine condition.
Collation of volume I, the text volume:
1 folio sheet, 4 pages, all blank
1 folio sheet, 4 pages divided in Half title, blank, Title page, blank
31 plano sheets, 8 pages per sheet, pages numbered 9 - 256
1 folio sheet, 4 pages, numbered 257, 258 plus 2 blanks
The size of the folio sheets is 382 x 560 mm.
The size of the plano sheets is 764 x 560 mm.
The page size is 382 x 280 mm.
Collation of volume II, the plate volume:
1 portfolio, containing 20 coloured plates
1 portfolio containing 1 coloured plate and 106 b/w plates
The coloured plate in the b/w portfolio is plate number 2 (picture # 13 here below).
The plates in the b/w portfolio are numbered 1 - 102, however, there are 5 bis numbers, resulting in a total of 107 plates.
This beautiful book was jointly published by Maurice Rousseau in Paris, Ch. Weckesser in Brussels and G.E. Stechert & Co. in New York. Printed in a numbered run of 900 copies of which the last 630 copies were printed on parchment paper (vélin fort). This is copy nr. 708.
The colofon reads:
Achevé d'imprimer le 31 mai 1929,
sur les presses de J.-E. Goossens, société anonyme,
rue Haberman, 27, à Bruxelles,
sous la direction de M. Henri Gregoir.
Les clichés en quadrichromie et en noir
ont été exécuté par les Établissements Jean Malvaux,
société anonyme de photogravure.
A heavy set, weighing approx. 8 kg.
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