Manuel Typographique, Utile aux Gens de Lettres, & a ceux qui exercent les differentes parties de l'Art de l'Imprimerie

by Pierre Simon Fournier, le Jeune

$4,900 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

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Paris, 1764-1766 68 . Two volumes. 4 x 6 1/4. xxxii, Frontis of a printing shop by Gravelot, 316, 5 pages + 16 foldout plates; allegorical frontis, xliv, 306 pages including 5 foldout plates of music printing. Handsome contemporary leather bindings, morocco spine labels, spines gilt with printers' flowers ornaments, a.e.g. Dutch gilt endpapers are signed in the design by the Ausberg papermaker Johann Echinger. Joints & tips rubbed; spine crown chipped on

• Binding: Leather

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