Traité de la relieure des livres
Subtitle: by Jean-Vincent Capronnier de Gauffecourt ; a bilingual treatise on bookbinding, translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau ; with an introduction by John P. Chalmers ; edited by Elaine B. Smyth.
Contributors: Smyth, Elaine B.
Publisher: W. Thomas Taylor
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Bookbinding -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 21-22.
Gauffecourt's text is transcribed from the only printed ed. of 1763, supplemented by passages unique to the Felbrigg ms. in Cambridge University Library. Both sources are entirely in French.
The editorial matter is also in French and English.
"Three hundred copies ... printed ... Forty copies are printed on Gampi Torinoko and are specially bound; the balance are printed on Frankfurt White"--Colophon.