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Dear Members of the list,
I am seeking for biographical and bibliographical datas about the French
parisian bookbinder Louis Dézé (1857-1930).
Louis Dézé had a very personal style, sculpting the leather in figurative
scenes and staining it with polychromy. The scenes were always in relation
with the content of the book.
On some bindings, he also drew and colored directly decorative patterns on
the leather around the central scene. Bindings were more often signed with
the stamped initials L D (sometimes his full name at the pencil).
As a great admirator of Gustave Doré, he published in 1930 a catalogue of
the books he illustrated. This bibliography is always in use today.
I would be interested by any further information on this interesting but not
well-known bookbinder and its production, and of course by scans of his
bookbindings.