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of the typographic art' (Jackson Burke 527). This copy also includes the portrait of Fournier after Bichou, which is often missing. In his preface to volume I Fournier gives a brief overview of the earlier French publications on the history of printing and type, and outlines the scope of his book. He gives technical information on punch-cutting, matrix-making, and type-founding, and includes here his innovative point system of type sizes. In a series of tables he indicates the respective number of each character to be supplied in making up fonts of Roman, Hebrew, Greek, music types etc. and concludes with eight engraved plates, which show tools and equipment employed in the various processes described in the text. In the second volume Fournier emphasises the importance of utilising the full range of printing types, and gives details of the principal type foundries of Europe. The main section of the book consists of type specimens of every type and size imaginable. They represent the types of Fournier l'ainé, the Paris founders Cappon and Hérissant and Breitkopf (Leipzig) and are grouped under six headings: I. Types in ordinary use, II. Ornaments, III. Types peculiar to particular countries or of special forms, IV. Oriental types, V. Music and plain-song, VI. Types of ancient and modern languages with explanatory notes. The very attractive type specimen shows Roman, italic, Greek, Hebrew fonts, with many additional exotic type faces, such as Syriac, Arabic, Coptic and Armenian. It presents the amazing repertory of Fournier's foundry, ranging from the tiny 'Parisienne' and 'Nonpareille' sizes to the grand size of 'Grosse Nonpareille', an unusually large face for cast type. A further highlight of this type specimen is the extensive choice of ornaments, which were clearly designed to compose into a great variety of combinations and patterns. Fournier's contribution to typography cannot be over-estimated. 'His grasp of typography was so complete and so firm that he could venture into every corner of it, its literature, its history, its relation to greater things, writing, architecture, music.' His first contribution had been his 'table des proportions qu'il faut observer entre les caractères', an attempt to standardize type sizes by a point system - a standard which is still in use today. He was a great innovator and moderniser of type faces, and his type specimen gives ample proof of this. Fournier had planned this work to consist of four volumes, but died before its completion. Audin, 55,56; Bigmore & Wyman I p. 228; Birrell & Garnett 37; Jackson Burke 527; Printing and the Mind of Man (Exhibition Catalogue) II, 112; see Updike, Printing Types, 1951, I, pp. 250-266 with numerous sample pages. French Constitution 26. [FRANCE - Constitution]. Constitution Française et Acceptation du Roi. Dijon, P. Causse, 1791. £ 600 12mo, pp. [ii], 163; contemporary full red morocco with simple gilt rule to sides and spine, gilt-lettering directly to spine; early owner's signature 'John Greenwell, Broomshields' to front free endpaper.
An attractive copy of this rare provincial printing of the Revolutionary constitution, together with the King's letter of September 13th, 1791 to the Assemblée Nationale, his acceptance of September 4th, and the response of the president to the King. The constitution is preceded by the Declaration of Rights, and the work concludes with a useful alphabetical subject index. Another Dijon edition without the King's response, was published the same year. The Earliest Catalogue of '<strong>Books</strong> in Print' 27. [FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.] WILLER, Georg. Catalogus novus nundinarum vernalium Francoforti ad moenum, anno M.D.LXXXV … Verzeichnuss fast aller neuwer Bücher, welche seyther der nechtsverschiene Herbstmess, biss auf dise gegenwertige Fastenmess in offentlichem Druck seyn ausgangen. Frankfurt am Mayn, Willer, 1585. £ 2800 4to, pp. [45], some light browning; recent sprinkled boards, with printed title to cover. First edition thus of this early Frankfurt Book Fair catalogue. The Augsburg bookdealer and book-distributer Georg Willer (c. 1514-1594) was the first to issue regular (bi-annual) catalogues of new books available for purchase, which had been presented at the Frankfurt book fair. To facilitate their sales' promotion he issued regular catalogues, first with an Augsburg imprint, and later to save time, with a Frankfurt imprint. The first such catalogue was issued in 1564. The books listed are arranged by subject, and for the first time place, publisher and date are always mentioned. The catalogue first records books in Latin, then books in German, with a few French books also listed. Within this division, the books are arranged under the following headings: Protestant theology, followed by Catholic books, law, medicine, history and geography, philosophy and humanities, poetry and finally music. Clearly a much larger number of books was published in Latin than in the vernacular. For Willer the catalogues produced increased sales and proved an innovative sales' tool. But the catalogues also served a secondary function as an early form of '<strong>Books</strong> in Print' and were used by his competitors and librarians alike. With these early sales catalogues the book trade was well ahead of other retail businesses. Despite growing competition Willer continued to issue his catalogues until 1627, even though as early as 1598 an official Frankfurt book fair catalogue was issued under the title Frankfurter Ratsmeßkatalog (see Wittmann, Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels pp. 66 ff). All issues of Willer's catalogue are very rare.
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