Musée du Louvre. Le Mobilier Français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe Siècle. (French Furniture from the 17th and 18th Centuries).
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts. Émile Lévy, 1901. Full morocco, 16 inches tall. A magnificent binding, unsigned but by the great firm of J. Leighton of Brewer Street. With gilt raised bands, twin labels and fabulous gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt top edge and dentelles. With the bookplate of Alfred de Rothschild. Some slight foxing to the preliminaries but in fine condition. Illustrated with photographs in the text and then with 100 superb plates, many sepia and with 7 in colour. A sumptuous record of the Golden Age of French furniture when some of the finest and most refined pieces were ever created, in a fabulous binding from the library of a great connoisseur.
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