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Book/Printed Material Essai d'une nouvelle typographie : ornée de vignettes, fleurons, trophées, filets, cadres & cartels, inventés, dessinés & exécutés

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Title

  • Essai d'une nouvelle typographie : ornée de vignettes, fleurons, trophées, filets, cadres & cartels, inventés, dessinés & exécutés

Names

  • Luce, Louis, -1774.
  • Barbou, Joseph-Gérard, 1723-1790?, bookseller.
  • Maupeou, René-Charles de, 1688-1775 associated name.
  • Provost-Blondel, bookplate designer.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Paris : Imprimerie de J. Barbou, 1771.

Headings

  • -  Type and type-founding--France--Specimens--Early works to 1800
  • -  Book ornamentation--France
  • -  Imprimerie nationale (France)
  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  Signatures: [A]⁴, B-Z², AA², BB¹, CC-ZZ², &², &&², 1 leaf unsigned.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1667
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown with illustration of a bookstand on a tree trunk olding a book with a Christian cross on the front cover. Below image is a crown and another geometric design. Bookplate has motto: Naitre Plevrer Movrir Apprendre signed Provost-Blondel Gr.
  • -  LC copy: Contemporary red morocco binding, with superexlibris of René Charles de Maupeou.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-04-03 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [10] p. : 93 plates (11 fold.) ; 26 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z250 .L944

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49036655

OCLC Number

  • 22316177

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Luce, Louis, -1774, Joseph-Gérard Barbou, René-Charles De Maupeou, Bookplate Designer Provost-Blondel, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Essai D'une Nouvelle Typographie: Ornée De Vignettes, Fleurons, Trophées, Filets, Cadres & Cartels, Inventés, Dessinés & Exécutés. Paris: Imprimerie de J. Barbou, 1771. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49036655/.

APA citation style:

Luce, L., Barbou, J., Maupeou, R. D., Provost-Blondel, B. D. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1771) Essai D'une Nouvelle Typographie: Ornée De Vignettes, Fleurons, Trophées, Filets, Cadres & Cartels, Inventés, Dessinés & Exécutés. Paris: Imprimerie de J. Barbou. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49036655/.

MLA citation style:

Luce, Louis, -1774, et al. Essai D'une Nouvelle Typographie: Ornée De Vignettes, Fleurons, Trophées, Filets, Cadres & Cartels, Inventés, Dessinés & Exécutés. Paris: Imprimerie de J. Barbou, 1771. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/49036655/>.