Word: monod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today is the last opportunity to view the collection of French bindings from the library of the late M. Monod, which will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. The collection, loaned temporarily to the Library, will be split up, as the books have been willed to several different persons. The bindings are all executed by French masters of bookbinding; three of the most beautiful are by Leou Gruell, who founded the Chamber Syndicale, an organization whose members are the best bookbinders in France...
...collection of examples of the work of modern French bookbinders has lately been put on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the College Library, where the books will remain for another week. They come from the library of the late M. C. H. Monod of Paris, a distinguished book collector and a former officer of the French Ministry of the Interior. Among the binders represented are Mercler, Gruel, Samblanx, Noulhac, Vermorel, Plerson and Carayon...