Accession number
PML 126056
Published
Lyon : R.P.J. Hervier and J.A. Henry for A. Roux, [1886 i.e. between 1886 and 1887]
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Imprint from colophon: Cet ouvrage a été heureusement achevé à Lyon le viii Sept. l'an de N.S. mdccclxxxvii sur les dessins du R.P.J. Hervier S.M. par J.A. Henry, fabricant. A. Roux libraire editeur Lyon.
Text woven on Jacquard looms by the firm of J.A. Henry.
Manufacture of the volume employed the Jacquard method (Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1752-1834) of using punch cards which J.A. Henry first used with Les laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn. Reproduit en caractères tissés avec license des propriétaires éditeurs (by Alphonse de Lamartine) in 1883. That earlier title is the true "first book 'printed' by computer". Over a two-year period, 50-60 copies of Livre de prières were produced. According to book historian Michael Laird, several hundred thousand cards (estimated between 106,000 and 500,000) were required.
Ornamental borders throughout.
The illustrations and borders all derive from 14th-16th-century medieval manuscript illumination, see Lilian M.C. Randall, "A nineteenth-century 'medieval' prayerbook woven in Lyon," in Art the ape of nature, eds. M. Barasch and L.F. Sandler.
PML copy with blank armorial (half-title verso) and without initial H (Hervier or Henry?) in banderole or at table of contents.
Text woven on Jacquard looms by the firm of J.A. Henry.
Manufacture of the volume employed the Jacquard method (Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1752-1834) of using punch cards which J.A. Henry first used with Les laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn. Reproduit en caractères tissés avec license des propriétaires éditeurs (by Alphonse de Lamartine) in 1883. That earlier title is the true "first book 'printed' by computer". Over a two-year period, 50-60 copies of Livre de prières were produced. According to book historian Michael Laird, several hundred thousand cards (estimated between 106,000 and 500,000) were required.
Ornamental borders throughout.
The illustrations and borders all derive from 14th-16th-century medieval manuscript illumination, see Lilian M.C. Randall, "A nineteenth-century 'medieval' prayerbook woven in Lyon," in Art the ape of nature, eds. M. Barasch and L.F. Sandler.
PML copy with blank armorial (half-title verso) and without initial H (Hervier or Henry?) in banderole or at table of contents.
Description
[6], xliii, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Provenance
S.E.M., gilt monogram (binding); E. Clark Stillman, shelfmark: SP44a; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Binding
Brown calf, gilt and worked in relief, with the monogram SEM in gilt. Blue silk pastedowns; gilt top and bottom edges. Signed by Gruel. In a black solander box.
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