Lortic (Marcellin, binder).- Cardoze (Jules) Lina, Histoire Vraie, extra-illustrated with 8 original drawings by T.Vardon comprising hand-coloured pen & ink frontispiece, 3 pen & ink plates and 4 pencil head- or tail-pieces, bound in charming crushed tan goatskin, by Marcellin Lortic, covers tooled in gilt with triple fillet border and panel of five narrow parallel lines with protruding corners and leafy fronds filling corners, spine titled and panelled in gilt with five raised bands, blue goatskin doublures with border of gilt fillets & small dots and floral ornaments to corners, signed "Lortic fils" at foot of front turn-in, pale blue silk linings embroidered with small pink flowers, g.e., original pale green wrappers bound in (soiled and stained), spine a little rubbed, preserved in cloth slip-case (slightly soiled),12mo (binding c.115 x 80mm.), Paris, 1860.

⁂ Marcellin Lortic (1852-1928) was the son of Pierre-Marcellin Lortic and developed a style of richly-gilded bindings.