Bound in the arms of the dedicatee.- Villette (Charles Louis de) Oeuvres, Londres [but Montagris], …

Bound in the arms of the dedicatee.- Villette (Charles Louis de) Oeuvres, printed on 'Papier de Guimauve' [marshmallow], 20 samples of various kinds of paper made from plants and barks at end, some light spotting, marginal worm-holes to final few samples and rear free endpapers, handsomely bound in contemporary green morocco, gilt, covers with central gilt arms of the Marquis Ducrest, red morocco label to spine, very slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, tiny chip to upper corner, g.e.,12mo, Londres [but Montargis], [Claude Lequatre], 1786. ⁂ Among the earliest European examples of printing on paper made from vegetable fibres. Dedicated to the Marquis Ducrest, chancellor of the House of Orléans. The dedication is written by Pierre Alexandre Léorier-Delisle, director of the Langlée paper mills near Montargis, in whose work Ducrest had taken a keen interest. The work was also issued on paper made from the bark of the lime-tree (ecorce de tilleul), with some copies seemingly also on blue and pink tinted rag-paper. Provenance: Denise Weil-Scheler (book-label).