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Re: Verne (fwd)

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:11:38 +0200 (IST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
cc: bjava <sommer~at~smrn.com>

I have forwarded bjava Jean-Michel response, and he has some more questions....

Zvi.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:53:55 -0800
From: bjava <sommer~at~smrn.com>
To: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Verne (fwd)
Jean-Michel Margot wrote:
It means that somebody took
these two titles and asked a binder to bind them together. In french
such bindings are called "reliures d'amateur" in opposition to the 
"reliures d'editeur" and of course such "reliures d'amateur" are
more numerous as the "reliures d'editeur".
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I don't understand why the "amateur" bindings would be more numerous
than the publisher's printing. These were popular books and surely
Hetzel took advantage of their popularity. This is a beautiful book,
with a leather spine, gold inlay, marbled endpapers. It is more probable
that "reliures d'amateur" were few in number. Hetzel's paper was not of
the highest quality, so it seems unlikely that a discriminating
collector would have spent money binding these books together. The
binding looks more than a century old. In fact, inside the pages I found
a silk ribbon with U.S. Grant's portrait on it and WELCOME 1879
CALIFORNIA printed below it. It was either used as a bookmark or the
owner put it in the book as a souvenir. If these books were put together
by a reader, it was someone who loved them and had the money to spend on
a higher quality binding than the paper.  deserved.
Thanks for your help.   BW

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