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Description
1 folded leaf; 1 pewter plaquette. Text written and plaquette created by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. 1 folded leaf in blue cloth case stamped in silver. Pewter plaquette fits in frame in case. The promotional plaquette of bookbinder Charles Meunier is a reproduction of a work by Maurice Favre exhibited in 1903. It depicts a bookbinder at her sewing frame. Lettered on reverse "Aux amis la maison du livre 1900, Ch. Meunier." (To the friends of the 1900 book house, Ch. Meunier.). Gift of the Joseph Paulsen family. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Publication Date
1995
Imprint / Year
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1995
Publisher
Bird & Bull Press
City
Newton
Keywords
graphic design; bookbinding (process); plaques (flat objects); French; By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit 2021
Disciplines
Book and Paper | Graphic Design
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Morris, Henry; Meunier, Charles; Favre, Maurice; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Charles Meunier's plaquette, 1900, La Relieuse | The Bookbinder : a rare and beautiful depiction of the bookbinder in medallic art." (1995). Graphic Design. 8.
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