MICHON (Louis-Marie). Les Reliures Mosaïquées du XVIIIe Siècle.1956

Paris: Société de la Reliure Originale, Small 4to (235 x 210 mm), 125pp., one of 500 copies, coloured frontis., 45 plates (some coloured), bound in 1981 by Bernard Middleton in half morocco, Cockerell marbled paper boards, original printed wrappers bound in at end, spine lettered direct. "Excellent study of French eighteenth century inlaid bindings... comprising a census of all such bindings known at the time." — Breslauer, Uses of Bookbinding Literature. p. 21. Provenance: John Collins who has attached Middleton's original invoice to the rear paste-down - £28.75 including VAT.