Paris, Chez les Libraries Associés pour les Usages du Diocèse de Paris, 1781. 12mo. (15,5x9 cm.). Bound in an exquisite contemporary green full morocco binding with richly gilt spine and boards. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Gilt line- and floral borders to boards and inner dentelles. The inner dentelles consist of two stamps of which one is known from a signed Derome binding made for Louis XVI. Edges of boards and all edges gilt. Endpapers in pink moiré. (Presumably by Derome.). Gilt label (""Renouard Lainé"") to pasted down front endpaper. Internally clean. (24),600,CCXL pp.
A beautiful, well preserved unsigned binding, probably by the renowned French bookbinder Nicolas Denis Derome.