With all respects, I would like to point out a few things.
In regards to raising the spine off the stone for the last few strokes. Lets call these last few strokes "the last 3 out of the 100" total (or 500, I don't care). That does work, at first. It will get you a shave, but the next time you hone your wedge, and you have to access the edge you will in the first 97 strokes need to hone off more steel out of necessary to get to that same last step of those last 3 again. Micro beveling is nothing new but for a razor that are normally laid flat on the stone it creates extra work down the road including resizing the spine thickness to keep the spine height to blade width proportion consistant.
I read that whole article by Benjamin Kingsbury, really nice find to have that pamphlet handy through google books. He talks about lifting the spine and how it might be necessary if 1) a tough beard is in need of a steeper angle edge, or 2) a spine that is too thin and out of proportion for the width of the blade. He suggests that these cases do occur but are "comparatively rare".
Kingsbury goes into detail on honing with the razor laid flat on the stone, he mentions nothing about how flat the stone is, or its need to be. I am assuming that in the 1700s and early 1800s a normal stone surface is concave and that this is why it is not necessarly to mention the flatness or concavity of a stone.
Now to the Frenchman J.J. Perret. If someone could actually translate his ideas of the hones configuration, I would appreaciate it. I would suggest off hand though that if he is using two similar hones and rubbing them together with a loose pumice grit inbetween the stones, it sounds like he is creating a concave stone on purpose. Two stones rubbed together with an alternate abrasive between them leaves neither stone flat.
Does he actually say that he is creating a flat stone by doing this? Also about his hollow ground razors, are they covered in this same paper and is he tying the new hollow ground profile razors to his shaping of the stones surfaces? Can you fill in some details?
Alex