[1930] Catalogue de Reliures du XV au XIX Siecle, en Vente a la Librairie Gumuchian

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

An extensive large paper catalogue with descriptions of three hundred and ninety eight fine bindings from the Gumuchian libraries, with text both in English and in French. Dated 1930 from the same copy on Jisc held at the British Library. One of one thousand copies on vellum paper. 

Most of the bindings are illustrated with some lovely photographs over one hundred and thirty five full page plates, of which eleven coloured. Collated, complete. 

Inscribed to Audrey-Pleydell Bouverie 'from Russell,' dated 1938. This volume is from the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey, the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.

She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'.