Accession number
PML 198712
Published
Parisiis : È typographiâ Fratris regis natu proximi, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Engraved vignette of the French royal arms on title.
Issued by the brother of King Louis XVI of France, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence, later, Louis XVIII.
Didot's dedication to prelate and French statesman, Cardinal Loménie de Brienne, on p. [3] of first sequence.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-Tt⁴ Vv²(-Vv₂).
200 copies printed. Cf. Graesse, Trésor de livres, v.3, p. 414.
First display of the petit-paragon roman types cut by Henri Didot, printed on wove paper manufactured at the Montgolfier mill in Annonay (viz. "Typographi monitum," p. [6] of first sequence).
Frontispiece, "Le sauveur du monde," engraved by Ignace Sebastien Klauber after Stella.
Issued by the brother of King Louis XVI of France, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence, later, Louis XVIII.
Didot's dedication to prelate and French statesman, Cardinal Loménie de Brienne, on p. [3] of first sequence.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-Tt⁴ Vv²(-Vv₂).
200 copies printed. Cf. Graesse, Trésor de livres, v.3, p. 414.
First display of the petit-paragon roman types cut by Henri Didot, printed on wove paper manufactured at the Montgolfier mill in Annonay (viz. "Typographi monitum," p. [6] of first sequence).
Frontispiece, "Le sauveur du monde," engraved by Ignace Sebastien Klauber after Stella.
Description
[8], 338 pages : 1 plate (frontispiece) ; 33 cm
Binding
Gilt-tooled mottled calf with onlaid mottled calf centerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
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