About the cover:

Full-grain binding Dark green, smoothed marocco leather, front and back covers with stylised, blind-contoured chestnut leaves in light green and light brown leather overlay, accentuated by hand-gilt, sweeping decorative lines, also on the wide inner edges, similarly decorated binding panels between five bands, hand-gilt title in the second binding panel, gilt edges on three sides, hand-stitched endpapers, spine and fly-leaf endpapers. Leather-bound slipcase covered with coloured paper.

About the content:

Albert Samain: Aux Flancs du Vase

With 54 original colour etchings by Gaston La Touche and a watercolour signed by the artist

Ex. No. 68 of 100 of the special edition for members of the Société du Livre d'art was personalised for Monsieur Henri Delacour, Paris, 1906 Albert Samain (1858-1900) first published this poetic collection of 23 poems in 1898.

About the artists: René Victor Chambolle (1834–1898) and Hippolyte Duru (1803–1884) started collaborating in 1857, and the two talented bookbinders gained under the name of Chambolle-Duru great recognition among bibliophiles. However, their collaboration did not last very long. From 1863 on, René Victor Chambolle continued to run the bindery alone, later with his son René Jr. (1873–1915). Chambolle Sen. developed a cheap kind of binding known as “faux dos fermé”.

After his father’s death, the son took over the bindery and continued under the renowned name Chambolle-Duru.