BINDING - Eucologe ou Livre d' Église a l' Usage de Paris.

BINDING - Eucologe ou Livre d' Église a l' Usage de Paris, contenant l' Office de Tous les Dimanches et Fêtes de l' Année. Eucologe ou Livre d' Église a l' Usage de Paris, contenant l' Office de Tous les Dimanches et Fêtes de l' Année. Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Aux Dépens des Libraires Associés pour les Usages du Diocèse, 1824. Small 8vo (144 x 82mm). FINELY BOUND in highly elaborate panelled plum morocco gilt by Corfmat incorporating red, tan and green morocco onlays and monogram [?]"C.B." stamped on covers, "Rel. Par. Corfmat" stamped in gilt on spine, doublures, red watered silk endpapers, gilt edges (upper inner hinges split, but silk cords holding, joints a little rubbed, minor old repairs at head of spine). Provenance: old illegible inscription on front free endpaper. The British Library contains 7 bindings by Corfmat which are part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings. They appear in the catalogue with the following note: "According to the directories, J. Corfmat first appears at [Rue] St. Jacques 110 in 1840 where he continued till 1843. He was probably active for considerably longer and a binder of the same name appears at St. Jacques 124 in 1849. His favourite decoration is à la rocaille. Further, there are number of other binders of the same name and approximate period, whom it is difficult to place exactly. Thus there is a second Corfmat in the 1842 Almanach at Galande 37; an E. Corfmat Jeune at St. Sévérin 16 in 1847-1849 and yet another at Zacharie 9 in 1849 (P. Culot, Relieurs et Reliures, 1995 p. 486; J. Fléty, Dictionnaire des Reliures Francais, p. 47 (Corfmat); C. Ramsden, French Bookbinders, p. 57, 226)" (B.L.).