Bidspirit auction | LE LIVRE OBJET D'ART. Collection

LE LIVRE OBJET D'ART. Collection Calouste Gulbenkian. France. XIXe-XXe Siècles. Lisbonne. 1997. - LE LIVRE OBJET D'ART. Collection Calouste Gulbenkian. France. XIXe-XXe Siècles . Lisbonne: Musée Calouste Gulbenkian, 1997. 176 pp.; 280 mm. Catalogue dedicated to the French core of Calouste Gulbenkian's 19th and 20th-century book collection, with texts by Maria Teresa Gomes Ferreira, Maria de Lourdes Belchior, and Antoine Coron about the collector and the formation of the collection. It includes color photographs of elaborate bindings and illustrated bibliophile editions, a testament to the great French tradition of artistic bookbinding and luxury illustrated books between the second half of the 19th century and the 20th century, a period in which Gulbenkian assembled one of the most remarkable collections of this kind outside of France. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate