[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - PASCAL, Blaise.

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[GERMAIN, Louise-Denise] - PASCAL, Blaise.
The Mystery of Jesus. Paris, Librairie de l'Art Catholique, 1917. Small in-12 [155 x 100] of 20 pp, (2) ff. the last blank: soft chestnut kid with braided brown leather borders, white bakelite cross held at the ends with silver threads on the first board, sketched cross with silver lamées on the second board, brown leather spine with 4 ribs, black painted rag paper and japanese paper endpapers, untrimmed, cover preserved (binding by Louise-Denise Germain, modern case). Edition of 250 numbered copies on Arches laid paper (n° 109). Louise-Denise Germain executed at least three bindings on this work, all in soft leather and made on the models of the leather goods she used to make. "These Pascalian thoughts could thus be easily slipped into a pocket, like vademecums. The bindings, probably intended for a circle of friends and family, were made at the earliest in the early 1920s" (Fabienne Le Bars, Louise-Denise Germain (1870-1936). Reliures, BNF, 2017, p. 32). A beautiful and perfectly preserved copy.
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