Deckle-Fetishism

DECKLE-FETISHISM

"The over-zealous, undiscriminating ... passion for uncut edges in books which were intended to have their edges cut" — ABC for Book Collectors

ALEATORY AMUSEMENT

Catrufo's guide to writing waltzes with math, Barême Musical Ou L'Art De Composer La Musique Sans en Connaitre Les Principes (Paris 1811, 8vo) — stabbed as issued in contemporary pink wrappers and partially unopened.

GRAPHOMANIAC

Destruissard's frenetic autograph manuscript, Des religions et des gouvernemens par rapport aux moeurs, Suivis de quelques aperçus (Gentilly 1818, 8vo), attacks the materialist system of the Encyclopédie. Unedited, unpublished, ungoverned — and uncut.

ENVIRONMENTAL &

PUBLIC HEALTH

In this copy of Guillon-Duvergé's Mémoire Topographique ... de la Ville de Tours (Tours 1774, 12mo), examining the effect of environmental conditions on public health, the deckle edges poke out of the contemporary marbled wrapper, awaiting a binder's knife that never came.

DEATH OF A BOOKMAN

Francesco Caluri's eulogy of his friend and patient, the Aldine collector and bookseller V. Pazzini Carli, was once stabbed and remains mostly uncut.

"LA CÉLÈBRE VENTE"

The sale catalogue of the art collection of Charles Leoffroy de Saint Yves (Paris 1805, 8vo) — strong in Northern artists, priced and with deckles standing proud.

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN A TROUBLED TOWN

These accounts for the leatherworkers of the Brotherhood of St. John in Moosburg, Bavaria (1710-1738) comprise six fascicles, with two documents laid in, on untrimmed folded sheets.

WITH CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT PRICES

The library sale catalogue of the Archbishop of Reims (Paris 1763, 8vo), in contemporary drab paper wrappers and mostly uncut.

﻿ALEATORY AMUSEMENT

﻿GRAPHOMANIAC

ENVIRONMENTAL &

PUBLIC HEALTH

DEATH OF A BOOKMAN

"LA CÉLÈBRE VENTE"

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN A TROUBLED TOWN

WITH CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT PRICES

ALEATORY AMUSEMENT

GRAPHOMANIAC