Gabriel Martin, one of the auctioneers of the Bigot library, pro- moted this scheme, which originated in the seventeenth century and may have first been applied in the Cata- logus bibliothecae Thuanae (1679), the catalogue of the library of French historian and bibliophile Jacques Auguste de...
The French consider it a single volume within a set of collected volumes, thus bringing us full-circle back to the cheese.Tooled. Indicates decorations on the binding. Most often used in describing leather bound books. Trade Edition. This is the mass marketed edition of a book that you see...