Engel (Jean, binder).- Quinze Joyes de Mariage (Les), edited by D.Jouaust, number 85 of 170 copies on Hollande, from an edition limited to 215, 15 etched chapter headings by Lalauze, very occasional spotting, bound in black morocco with onlaid strapwork design in tan and tooled in gilt, by Engel, with ornate gilt Rococo centrepiece incorporating satyr heads and leafy stems with onlaid red morocco roses filling other compartments all within border of several gilt fillets and dotted lines, spine titled in gilt with compartments of gilt-ruled tan morocco strapwork onlays and five raised bands, turn-ins with gilt fillets & dotted lines and onlaid tan morocco strapwork, signed at foot of front turn-in, marbled endpapers, g.e., original printed wrappers bound in, preserved in marbled board slip-case, 8vo (c.225 x 130mm.), Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1887.

⁂ An anonymous 15th century French satirical text on marriage once attributed to Antoine de La Salle but now sometimes to Alain Taillecoul.

Jean Engel (1800-1892) was a Parisian bookbinder who is known more for his pictorial gilt trade bindings, particularly those for Hetzel on the works of Jules Verne.