Vintage French Books ~ Embossed Bindings in the Loring Collection ..... Many of these are from A. Mame & Company, a 19th Century Publisher, Printer & Bookbinding Establishment in Tours, France, such Bindings called “Chocolate Box” Style by some Historians & featured Embossing on Paper of Multiple Colours with a Window in the Covers through which showed a Lithograph, often of a Young Lady or an Outdoor Scene, which may or may not relate to the Contents ......
