17 - [BIBLIOGRAPHY - TYPOGRAPHY] - PIETERS, Charles

[BIBLIOGRAPHY - TYPOGRAPHY] - PIETERS, Charles "Annals of Elsevier Printing, or History of the Elsevier Family and Its Publications" Ghent, C. Annoot-Braeckman Press, 1851 Large 8vo. Light-colored half-maroquin with corners, signed “J. Pernot” at the bottom of the spine; a Brussels bookbinder active in the mid-19th century. Spine with 4 raised bands accented with gold beading, decorated with gold-embossed panels. Author and title in gold lettering. Gold headband. Scuffing and signs of wear. Scattered foxing. First edition and first printing of this authoritative bibliographic monograph, written by the scholar and collector Charles Pieters. The work offers the first scientific, chronological, and annotated inventory of the typographic output of the famous Dutch Elsevier printing dynasty, rigorously describing the variants—the tree, Minotaur, and sphere marks—as well as the characteristic formats of their famous small-format prints. Provenance: from the library of Philippe de Volkaersbeke (ex-libris)