[BOOKBINDER'S MANUSCRIPT]

Poésies recueillées par Larue Duverne fils, relieur-doreur à Autun. – Album de poésies.

1890-1892

2 quarto volumes (325 x 265 mm), light half-calf; slight discoloration on the binding of one volume, some light rubbing (Larue Duverne fils).

Charming albums of handwritten poetry, with a first volume containing 140 handwritten poems decorated with drawn or pasted elements, and a second volume containing 108 collages of printed poems pasted onto various book covers and brochures (probably from the bookbinder's work).

The albums were composed and bound by the bookbinder-gilder Larue Duverne fils in Autun.

Julien Fléty. Dictionary of French bookbinders who practiced from 1800 to the present day. 1988. p. 105 "Larue-Duverne, bookbinder in Autun. He worked towards the end of the 19th century and until the 1930s."

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