The Pierrot of the Minute

In his 1887 guidebook Historical and Bibliographical Manual for Collectors of Bookbindings, Léon Gruel described and illustrated a 1766 binding by Robert-Jean Bailly. He then produced an exact copy, seen here. The leather cover has been cut away to reveal a rich underlayer of...

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Owned by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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