[RELIURE - PORTE-DOCUMENTS] - Reliure aux armes de Madame Adélaïde remaniée en porte-documents. - 1760

[Binding - Document Holder]
Binding with the arms of Madame Adélaïde redesigned into a document holder.
Second half of the 18th century

Format in-4 (24.8 x 18 cm). Garnet morocco, spine with raised bands ornamented with gilded fleur-de-lis, lace and fleurons of fleur-de-lis framing the boards, gilded arms at the center, double gold fillets on the edges, interior soufflet in 19th-century marbled paper. Binding from the second half of the 18th century. Wear from use. Two corners worn, one corner blunted, headcaps worn, stains on the second board, epidermal scuff on the first spine edge.

Marie-Adélaïde of France (1732–1800), called Madame Adélaïde, is one of the daughters of King Louis XV and Marie Leszczyńska. A bibliophile like her sisters, Madame Victoire and Madame Sophie, she used to have the books in her library bound in red morocco.