Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Fifteen

oman to italic and from one size to the next. His types were consistently
numbered from start to finish, with Greek and Hebrew included in the numeration.
Ornaments, signs, titlings and initial letters of various sizes were
shown at appropriate junctures in the sequence, making the book a very
comprehensive and helpful guide to printers deciding what they needed to
order from him’ (Dreyfus, p. 91–92). This magnificent collection was sold
by Lamesle to Nicolas Gando in 1758. Lamesle then moved to Avignon,
founded another foundry and issued another, entirely different, type specimen
in 1769.
Amongst the older types he presents L’oeil ordinaire (similar to Garamond),
also Cicero Gros and Petit Paragon by Robert Granjon, which was
also used by Plantin. Amongst the modern type faces it is interesting to note
that he includes Cicero Romain, Oeil dit la Police no. xxxi, a direct copy of the
‘Romains du Roi’ of the Imprimerie Royale, – a typeface that was explicitly
forbidden to be copied.
[Provenance:] From the collection of D. B. Updike, with his ownership inscription
in ink to the title.
Audin, 27; Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 417; Birrell & Garnett 35; see A. F. Johnson,
The Type specimens of Claude Lamesle, a facsimile edition of the first edition printed at
Paris in 1742, Amsterdam 1965; John Dreyfus, Aspects of French Eighteenth Century
Typography, Cambridge, Roxborough Club, 1982.
The Legal Profession in France and its Reform
51 [LAW.] Réflexions d’un Militaire sur la Profession d’Avocat;
Utiles au Barreau & au Public, pour détruire les abus qui dégradent
l’un, & nuisent à l’intérèt des deux. London and Paris, Veuve Vallat-
La-Chapelle, Méquignon le jeune, 1781. £350
8vo, pp. 31 including initial blank; uncut, stitched as issued in the original
buff wrappers, a little dog-eared and creased, else fine.
First edition of a curious anonymous publication characterising the profession
of the lawyer. The anonymous author, who concedes in the preface
that he was originally destined for the bar but chose the military instead,
deplores the laboriousness of the legal career, much less likely to gain honours
and public recognition than for example the military.
He criticises the complex internal structure of the judiciary, with its limited
number of those in high office, such as public prosecutor and those
called to the bar, who benefit, whereas most of the actual legal work is
being done by legal trainees. He proposes a much more merit based system
and suggests the abolition of old structures, especially the venality and
inheritance of public office such as magistrates, which was characterised by
self-interest and privilege.
Not in INED; OCLC list copies at the Society of the Cincinnati and Berkeley Law
Library only.
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