[RELIURE YSEUX] GUIMBAUD, Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet, 1914
GUIMBAUD, Louis.
Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet d'après les lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo et avec un choix de ces lettres.
Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1914.
8vo (225x145 mm), (4)-iv-504 pages. binding : Contemporary half morocco, gilt-decorated flat spine, headedge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in. Large foxing on title page.
First edition. Fine binding signed by Yseux.
Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.