TRAITE DES MEMBRANES EN GENERAL, ET DE DIVERSES MEMBRANES EN PARTICULIER
Paris: Mme. Veuve Richard, 1802. New Edition. Octavo, xxxii, 302 pp. Good; bound in contemporary marbled paper and leather spine, with extensive fading to paper and leather corner pieces missing, with modern repair to torn spine; front inside cover join somewhat compromised but binding else tight; marbled text block age-toned; foxing to pages throughout; previous owner bookplate to inside front pastedown "Samuel Louis Fox;" MF consignment.
1357366
Special Collections
Price: $200
NOTES
Publisher given as "Mme. Veuve [widow] Richard, Libraire, rue Haute-Feuille." Her husband having died in October of 1801, she continued to run his publishing business quite successfully. She remarried in 1805 to printer-publisher Jean-Georges-Antoine Stoupe, but continued using the professional name "Veuve Richard." At the back of this book from 1802 is indicated "De L'Imprimerie de Stoupe" which means they were probably both involved in the production of many of the same books well before they married.