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Cover detail of exquisite bookbinding

Craftsmanship

Montmartre mon Pays

Roland Dorgelès

1928


Roland Dorgelès (c1886-1973) wrote Montmartre mon Pays (Montmartre my Country) to celebrate his life in the bohemian area of Paris, post-World War I.

The binder, Madame L Alexandrova, was the foremost Czechoslovakian binder of her day.

This volume, published in Paris by Marcelle Lesage, was displayed at exhibitions in Paris and Prague in 1932. It is bound in Bordeaux, crushed levant morocco, tooled in gold, silver and black, and inlaid in olive morocco.