Les livres composant le cabinet de M. Eugène v. W***
A 1913 Brussels catalogue of fine bindings from the collection of Eugène von Wassermann, compiled with Georges Vicaire, a bibliophile's record for collectors and bookbinding historians. The pictures show full-page photographs of leather covers with gilt tooling, oval painted or inlaid medallions, and dark or red morocco panels framed by ornamental borders, and a designer might take from them the layered frame-and-medallion compositions and tooled spine lettering.
