Creator
Gustave Flaubert.
Title
Salammbô.
Coverage
Paris:
Publisher
Librairie de France,
Date
1922.
Subject
Gift of Jan Storm van Leeuwen.
Description
From the 1920s to the 1950s, the art of bookbinding in France was dominated by the Art Deco style, as represented in this striking binding by C. Grandgeorge. Covered in dark-green goatskin, the binding’s symmetrical design features concentric, interlocking circles tooled in silver on circular, dark red leather onlays, evoking the scales of an enormous python described in the text of Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbô, an historical novel set in ancient Carthage.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School