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Épreuve du premier alphabeth droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches

Title
Épreuve du premier alphabeth droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches / gravés par ordre du Roy pour l'Imprimerie royale par Louis Luce, & finis en 1740.
Publication
[Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1740]

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Additional Authors
  • Luce, Louis, -1774
  • La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
  • Imprimerie royale (France)
Description
[8] leaves : ill.; 12 cm. (32mo)
Subject
Printing > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
  • Type specimens.
  • Typefaces (Type evidence) – Perle.
  • Point sizes (Type evidence) – 4 point.
Note
  • First published specimen of Perle type, the first and smallest (4 point) of the series of typefaces proposed to be cut for the use of the Typographie royale in: Des arts de construire les caractères, de graver les poinçons de lettres, d'imprimer les lettres et de relier les livres (1704). Cf. Bernard, p. 80-83.
  • "Le format semble être l'in-32; néanmoins il est difficile de se prononcer, parce que le premier et le dernier feuillet ont les vergeures du papier en travers"--Bernard.
  • Two leaves are printed on both sides.
  • Illustrations: Type flower ornaments, vignettes, etc.
Indexed In (note)
  • Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung
  • Bernard, A. Hist. de l'Imprimerie royale du Louvre
Local note
  • Spencer Coll. copy has the bifolium with horizontal chain lines bound as 2 final leaves.
  • Spencer Coll. copy: Bound with: Phaedrus. Phaedri Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sententiae. Parisiis : Ex Typographia Regia, 1729. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Contents
Introduction a cette épreuve -- Trois fables de M. de la Fontaine -- Imitation d'Horace, liv. 2, ode 16 -- Vignettes sur le corps du premier alphabeth.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1729 93-507 no. 2
OCLC
NYPG93-B77226
Title
Épreuve du premier alphabeth droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches / gravés par ordre du Roy pour l'Imprimerie royale par Louis Luce, & finis en 1740.
Imprint
[Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1740]
Indexed In:
Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 5393
Bernard, A. Hist. de l'Imprimerie royale du Louvre, p. 178
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy has the bifolium with horizontal chain lines bound as 2 final leaves.
Spencer Coll. copy: Bound with: Phaedrus. Phaedri Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sententiae. Parisiis : Ex Typographia Regia, 1729. Bound together subsequent to publication.
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Added Author
Luce, Louis, -1774.
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. Fables. Selections. 1740.
Imprimerie royale (France)
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1729 93-507 no. 2
*KGHS (France. Imprimerie nationale. Épreuve du premier alphabeth)
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