 
                                        "Le Bijou Revue Artistique et Industrielle de Bijouterie, Joailleries et Orfevrerie" 1878-1899 (SOLD)
ROTHSCHILD, Jules [editeur]48 Plates w/ Tissue Guards Per Volume13 3/4" x 10 1/2"Vol I: 1878-79Vol II: 1880-81Vol III: 1882-83Vol IV: 1896-97 Scroll Down for (17) Additional Scans: *Dolphin bookends sold separately* ROTHSCHILD Jules (Editeur) Rue Saints-Peres, Paris: LE BIJOU Revue Artistique et Industrielle de Bijouterie, Joailleries et Orfevrerie Paris, 1878-1899 LE BIJOU was basically a pattern book. The subscribers would have been manufacturing jewellers, small and large firms in Paris and elsewhere - or perhaps shops which could use the suggestions to order pieces from their workshops; or again perhaps shops used them to show to clients who could order " one off pieces that could be made specially for them, Each annual volume consists of 24 coloured plates which were probably originally issued monthly or bi-monthly to subscribers. There is no text, and our research seems to confirm that there was never any text, only a printed wrapper. Some volumes which I have traced had a paper
