GARRIGOU (Marcel). Georges Cretté (Les Maîtres de la Reliure.) Studies by Harry Vinckenbosch... Toulouse, Arts et Formes, 1984. In-4 in ff, printed and illustrated cover inspired by the bindings of G. Cretté, filled, in a case. Essential documentation for this great bookbinder, illustrated with numerous reproductions of bindings in black in the text and 204 plates in fine in color or in black. Copy n°421 from an edition at 450 copies. Some light foxing to the cover at the spine otherwise a very good copy.

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