[Fine Binding | Gertrude Giles / Guild of Women Binders] Le Temple de Gnide E-List 12 but circa early to mid-1920s]

but circa early to mid-1920s]

This book is the only Vale Press publication in which these borders were used

Appears to have been used as a guest book by a single family from 1920-1967

gilt ornaments at the four corners of the rectangle

[Fine Binding | Gertrude Giles / Guild of Women Binders] Le Temple de Gnide E-List 12 but circa early to mid-1920s]Montesquieu. Le Temple de Gnide suivi d'Arsace et Ismnie. Nouvelle dition avec figures d'Eisen et de Le Barbier graves par Le Mire. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Rouen: Chez J. Lemonnyer, 1881. Limited to 50 copies on Japon, of which this is #6; there were also 100 copies on Whatman paper, and 50 copies on China paper. With 15 full page engravings after Eisen and Le Barbier, each in four states. Bound by Gertrude Giles [of the Guild of Women Binders]