18th century] · [Paris
by MINIATURE SILVER & ENAMEL BINDING
[Paris, 18th century]. Silver filigree binding (82 x 60 mm., including spine), the filigree covers of volutes and curling tendrils with inset painted ceramic or enamel oval centerpiece and heart-shaped corner-pieces showing putti in pastoral settings below love-related mottos in French (central plaque on front cover slightly damaged), both covers decorated with ten glass “amethysts”; hollow tubular filigree spine (reworked?), pair of fore-edge clasps and catches, the silver binding apparently glued to yellow silk-covered thin pasteboards, the yellow silk liners with pockets front and back; preserved in a modern morocco case. Containing a pasted-in modern (truncated)