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PEIGNOT, Gabriel (1767-1849). Essai sur l'histoire du parchemin et du vélin. Paris: Crapelet for Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1812. 8 o (227 x 150 mm). Collation : \kp\K 2 1-7 8. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of two copies. Publisher's woodcut device. (Discoloring to half-title and final page.) CONTEMPORARY BESANçON BINDING BY NOëL: gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco, roll-tooled floral border on sides, vase tool in compartments of flat spine, signed at foot, roll-borders on turn-ins, green watered-silk liners, gilt edges, contemporary gold-tooled orange pull-off case. Provenance : Charles Lormier (bookplate) -- Alexis Rouart (bookplate, 1911 sale, lot 316) -- René Descamps-Scrive (bookplate, 1925 Paris sale, Part II, lot 90) -- Maurice Escoffier -- (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Peignot distinguishes between parchment (made from lamb, sheep, cow or goatskin) and vellum (made from young or unborn calfskin), and treats their history as writing and printing surface, as well as binding material. The paper issue was limited to 250 copies, THE VELLUM ISSUE TO ONLY TWO COPIES. Since the other vellum copy was retained by the publisher Renouard for his own collection (see his 1819 private-library catalogue, vol. IV, p. 215), this one presumably belonged to Peignot. Van Praet, Vélins de Bibliothéques IV, 102.177.