[ARTS AND CRAFTS] FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROT, Auguste-Denis. The - Lot 37

[ARTS AND CRAFTS] FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROT, Auguste-Denis. The Art of Working with Gilded or Silvered Leather. No place [Paris], no publisher [Guérin & Delatour], 1762. Folio, 19th-century black half-percale binding. 42 pp., 2 full-page copperplate plates. Some scuffing (particularly along the edges), title page with browning and a few scattered foxing spots, margins slightly frayed, slight warping of the pages extending to the plates. First edition, complete with its two engraved plates, the first by Pierre Patte (1723–1814) and the second by the same artist after Simonneau. This volume, devoted to leather goods, is part of the *Description des Arts et Métiers* collection, which began in 1709 and included plates starting in 1761. With several library stamps on the title page and a hand-drawn library ex-libris in Italian. A fine copy.