About the binding:
Full leather binding Green Morocco goatskin; gold-tooled title on smooth spine; on the cover boards mirror-symmetrical pattern of sweeping, curved forms in green, red, and fair leather onlays, accompanied by long and short gold-tooled lines; all edges gilt, sewn endbands; doublure with gold-tooled frame, doublure and flyleaf suede. Leather-edged slipcase covered with decorated paper.
About the content:
Patrice de La Tour du Pin: Les Concerts sur Terre
Copy no 495 of 970 on Vélin Crèvecœur. Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1946. Patrice de la Tour du Pin (1911–1975) was a French writer and poet. The text in this volume is mostly in verse form.
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 the studio Gruel’s studio.
In 1925, they took over the establishment Pinardon and quickly became known for combining superb bookbinding with a very lively, modernist vocabulary of forms. The best bindings 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 Southern France in 1955, while Plumelle continued to work alone until 1980.
