Wealthy dilettante and quondam clockmaker

[Jean Vincent Capperonnier de Gauffecourt correspondence].

Traité de la relieure des livres : a bilingual treatise on bookbinding / by Jean-Vincent Capronnier de Gauffecourt ; translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau ; with an introduction by John P. Chalmers ; edited by Elaine B. Smyth.

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