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the collection and comments that the 22,000 prints and drawings which
had been in the collection were looted by the French. Mindel points out
with praise that Beuth had made provisions to save his collection intact for
the state or for his home town of Düsseldorf, but according to modern
sources, the collection is now lost, only a few mineralogical specimens are
at Bonn university.
OCLC: Harvard, Leiden, Dresden.
One of the Most Important French Printing Manuals
77. MOMORO, Antoine François. Traité élémentaire de
l’Imprimerie, ou Le Manuel de l’Imprimeur; avec 36 planches en
taille-douce. Paris, Veuve Tilliard & Son, 1796. £2,750
8vo, pp. [iv] (cancel title), 347, [1] errata, with 36 engraved plates
(numbered 1–28, and 1, 2, 13–18), and 1 folding engraved table bound
in; some light browning of the paper; contemporary full calf, flat spine
gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; repairs to joints and head and tail of spine;
overall a good copy.
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Re-issue of the first edition with a cancel title page of ‘one of the most
im portant French [printing] manuals. A brief introduction covers the
history of printing, the different types, and parts of the press, as well as the
principal operations of printing. The rest of the work consists of articles, in
alphabetical order, dealing with every aspect of printing and the printing
world and often giving detailed descriptions of contemporary practice.
An alphabetical list of the headings used follows together with specimen
impositions, case layouts, and engraved proof-correction sheet and nine
other plates’ (Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow, F6). The other plates show
views of the printing office, illustrating type-setting, paper-making and
printing, and also show a number of different printing presses with closeups
of individual parts and tools.
In his brief introduction Momoro refers to Fertel’s printing manual,
which is getting to be out-of-date. Momoro (1756–1794) was a fervent
revolutionary, became the official printer of the French Commune, and
styled himself ‘Premier Imprimeur de la Liberté’, nevertheless his fortune
turned, and in 1794 he died on the guillotine (Hanson, p. 218).This second
issue was published after his death.
Bigmore & Wyman, II, 48; Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow, F6; Jackson Burke 984.
Early Dry-Cleaning?
78. NIEWALD, Albrecht. Der wohlerfahrene Fleckenvertilger
oder die Kunst, alle Arten Flecken aus allen Zeugen und Stoffen,
aus Leder, Meubeln, ... zu vertilgen ... ; Mit 1 ... Tafel. Osteroda a.
Harz, A. Sorge, 1839. £450
8vo, lithograph frontispiece, pp. viii [9]–55, [1] advertisement;
contemporary buff boards; faint stamp of Kloster Andechs.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to stain removal from all manner
of surfaces. Niewald covers the removal of stains from all kinds of textiles,
from leather and furniture, floor coverings, carpets, but also from paper,
copperplate engravings, and books. Niewald, a professional chemist, also
gives information on the preparation of chemical bleach, called Javelle water
or Javel water, an aqueous solution of sodium or potassium hypochlorite,
which was originally made near the French town of Javelle (now part of
Paris). The use of this first chemical bleach was first demonstrated by C. L.
Berthollet in 1785. It was produced by passing chlorine gas through a water
solution of potash (potassium carbonate). The lithograph frontispiece
shows the chemical apparatus for the preparation of Javelle water. Niewald
analyses the basic causes of stains, be they colour pigments, fat, rust or iron
– and takes care when suggesting stain removal from coloured cloths.
The book was clearly popular, it was issued in a Dutch translation the
same year and went through a number of editions up to 1860.
OCLC lists copies at the BL and Göttingen only.