Chavagnac, comte X. de & Grollier, marquis de. Histoire - Lot 220

Chavagnac, comte X. de & Grollier, marquis de. Histoire des Manufactures françaises de porcelaine. Preceded by a letter from M. Le Marquis de Vogüé. Paris, Alphonse Picard et Fils, 1906. Large in-8° of XXVIII, 966, [1] pp. h.-t. plates and folding tabl. Green half-percaline à la Bradel, blue morocco t.p., 1st cover cons. First edition. Enriched with an autograph letter signed by the Marquis de Grollier, Paris, May 18 [19]07, to Alfred Mézières. 2 pp. in-8°. "[...] I am still overwhelmed by an atrocious flu, which explains the time I took to thank you for the journal des savants and the praise for our modest work. We are a little ashamed to be paid with such benevolence in such a high place". He repeats his debt to M. Macon, who gave him access to the Chantilly archives.