Meunier (Charles, binder).- [Haggin (Blanche B., editor)] Le Livre d'Amour, number 11 of 20 copies on grand papier parchemin du Japon, from an edition of 230, initialled by the editor, half-title printed in gold, title in red & black, bookplate of Henry Hollister Pease, bound in pinky-brown morocco, gilt, by Charles Meunier, covers with floral & foliate border of red and green morocco inlays delicately tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with similar onlays and five raised bands, stunning lilac morocco doublures with frame of darker brown and flowers and leaves in tan & green morocco, the whole elaborately tooled in gilt, lilac silk moiré flyleaves, marbled endpapers, original gilt-decorated vellum wrappers bound in at end, g.e., signed and dated 1896 at foot of front turn-in, joints and spine ends skillfully repaired, marbled slip-case, square 8vo (binding c.180 x 140mm.), New York, 1887.

⁂ Not quite a Jansenist binding but with the doublures far more richly decorated than the outside covers.