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A rare type specimen outlining type faces, both text, display and exotic fonts, together with borders, rules, ornaments and vignettes oVered by the innovative typefounder and printer Gillé fils. The type specimen combines traditional forms of presenting new type faces with ‘promotional’ literature, and an extensive range of borders and decorative devices. It has clearly been collected at the time, with circular letters included, and comprehensively represents Gillé’s type specimens published in the Wrst decade of the nineteenth century. Also included is the very rare prospectus for a printing manual (never to be published), the large folding type specimen and the engraving of the printing press, which are all often lacking. A full listing is available on request. Gillé is particularly important as a promoter of the newer styles of ornament, oVering typographic decoration to the printers of France, in a kind of stereotype, which he asserted was in design and method of reproduction destined to overthrow the outdated woodcuts of the Ancien Régime. (see Fleuron VI, pp. 167V). He also proposes vignette and borders cast on various type bodies, introduces type faces that resemble hand-writing, and borders of Greek and classical design. Amongst French type-founders at the end of the eighteenth and in the early years of the nineteenth century, Gillés père et fils, held a prominent positions. Gillé fils ‘was not content to rest on his father’s laurels after taking over the foundry in 1789. With the help of a work force numbering between 80 and 100, he added substantially to this father’s range of types and ornaments. He also made a considerable personal reputation by successfully combining artistic talent, commercial ambition, and the ability to keep himself well informed about technical developments in printing at home and abroad’ (Dreyfuss). Some of the type stock of Gillé Wls passed into the hands of the printer susanne schulz-falster rare books
J. A. Pasteur, who himself issued a type specimen in 1823. The larger part of it became property of the Wrm of Laurent, Balzac & Barbier, best-known for the novelist’s involvement. A number of other copies of this type specimen exist, Audin describes one (less complete), and there is a copy at the St Bride’s Printing Library, and another one described in Birrell & Garnett (more comprehensive); all of them diVer somewhat in their composition. This particular example contains all of the rarest items, i.e. the prospectus, the single sheet engraving of the press, and in particular the large folding type-specimen. Audin 75–79; Birrell & Garnett 47 (a more comprehensive collection); Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow, F9; Barber, French Letterpress printing p. 14; D. B. Updike, ‘A translation of the reports of Berlier & Sobry on Types of Gillé Wls’ in Fleuron VI, pp. 167V.; ; OCLC records copies with diVerent make-up at the Getty, Newberry, Huntington, Harvard, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Cambridge. 45 GLASER, Peter. Gesind TeuVel, darinn acht stücke gehandelt werden, von des Gesindes untrew, welche im nachfolgenden blat verzeichnet. Durch M. Peter Glaser Prediger zu Dresden gestellet und zusammen gezogen. Franckfurt am Mayn, 1566. [colophon:] Franckfurt am Mayn, Martin Lechler, Sigmund Feirabend and Simon Hüter, 1566. £1850 8vo, ll. 64, imprint to verso of last leaf, large title woodcut and two woodcut initials; old ink chapter numbering to verso of title, with some show-through; paper lightly browned; early twentieth century calfbacked boards, gilt-lettered spine label. catalogue fourteen
Page 1 and 2: Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFF
Page 3 and 4: Square 12mo, pp. 102, [2] errata, w
Page 5 and 6: From the mid-sixteenth century the
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Page 9 and 10: Fifty Remarkable Women - A Discussi
Page 11 and 12: On Generation 14 BLUMENBACH, Johann
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Page 15 and 16: of older books and recent publicati
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Page 27 and 28: With the Arms of the Altieri Family
Page 29 and 30: A detailed contents list at the end
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Page 61 and 62: Le Gallois presents a virtual tour
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Page 77 and 78: handsome woodcuts include amphora o
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Page 81 and 82: mine a person’s mental faculties.
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oth direct translations of Persian
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education for primary schools. The
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First edition, uncommon, of this un
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First Edition of Adam Smith’s Fir
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111 SONNENFELS, Aloys von. Controve
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decorative wrappers; spine a little
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in compartments with gilt-lettering
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show what Englishmen thought. Much
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Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’
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The Practicalities of Writing 125 [
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The Origin of Hebrew 127 ZENDRINI,
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