About the cover:
Full-grain binding Green marocco leather, mirror-symmetrical curved forms on both covers in green, red and light leather overlay, accompanied by long and short gold lines, hand-gilt title on smooth spine, gilt inner edges, gilt edges, hand-stitched endpapers, suede endpapers, slipcase covered with leather edges and coloured paper.
About the content:
Patrice de la Tour du Pin: Les Concerts sur Terre
Ex. No. 495 of 970 on Vélin Crévecoeur Édition Laffont, Paris, 1946 Patrice de la Tour du Pin (1911-1975) was a French writer and poet. The text is mostly in verse.
About the artists: Marcellin Semet, born in 1894, completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder with Chambolle-Duru during the First World War. His later partner, Georges Plumelle, born in 1902, was trained by the gilder Pagnier and later by Maylander. The two met after the war in Gruel's workshop.
In 1925, they took over the Pinardon company together. They quickly gained a reputation for combining first-class bookbinding skills with a very lively, modernist formal vocabulary. The best covers by Semet & Plumelle feature flowing lines or arabesques on a delicate two- or three-colour ground. Their style remained unchanged for years. Semet retired to the south of France in 1955, Plumelle continued to work alone until 1980.
