Luxury Bookbindings of the Belle ÉpoqueBinding by Léon Gruel (French; 1841–1923): Arsène Alexandre (
Luxury Bookbindings of the Belle ÉpoqueBinding by Léon Gruel (French; 1841–1923): Arsène Alexandre (French; 1859–1937), Les reines de l'aiguille: modistes et couturières. (Étude parisienne.) = Queens of the Needle: Milliners and Dressmakers. (A Parisian Study.) (Paris: T. Belin, 1902) Front cover, front doublure, front endpaper; cover adorned with arms of Paris in gold and silver on a mosaic of blue and red, and small ornaments composed of thimbles, scissors, and needles and threadThe New York Public Library, Spencer Collection -- source link
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