This week’s scanned book is the third volume of the catalog of the library of René Descamps-Scrive. Last week I posted some excerpts from the first two volumes of the same catalog.

Here are 12 out of approximately 100 illustrations depicting bindings from the collection. I also added scans and photographs of the outer elements of the book and the marbled endpapers for both tomes (my three volumes of the catalog are bound in two hardcover books in half-leather.)

H. C. Andersen – Histoires et aventures. Paris, 1909, in-8. Binding – Mercier, pere

Chateaubriand – Les Aventures du dernier Abencerage. Paris, 1897, in-8. Binding – Mercier, pere

André Chénier – Les Bucoliques. Paris, 1905, in-8. Binding – Ch. Meunier, 1907

Ludovic Halévy – Karikari. Paris, 1887, in-12. Binding – Marius Michel

Ludovic Halévy – Karikari. Paris, 1887, in-12. Binding – Marius Michel

Pierre Louÿs – Ariane ou Le chemin de la paix éternelle, 1 vol. Paris, 1904, in-8. Binding – Ch. Meunier, 1907

Victor Hugo – Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, 1889, in-8. Binding – Mercier, pere

Rudyard Kipling – Le Livre de la Jungle. Translation to French. Paris, 1919, in-4. Binding – Marius Michel

Montesquieu – Lettres Persanes. Paris, 1886, in-8. Binding – Mercier, pere

Jose-Maria de Heredia – Les Trophées. Paris, 1893, in-8. Binding – Marius Michel

Jules Renard – Histoires Naturelles. Paris, 1899, in-4. Binding – P. Lagrain

L’Abbé Prévost – Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris, 1870, in-12. Binding – Hardy, Marius Michel

And some of the outer book elements, including the marbledendpapers:

I’ll try to add as much information about the illustrations as I can – check the single photos to see the descriptions.

As usual, the whole scanned book is already available to our patrons at Patreon (for pledges of $5 per month and more): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding