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FOURNIER (PIERRE SIMON, LE JEUNE) Manuel typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Paris, l'Auteur, and Chez Barbou, 1764-1766
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FOURNIER (PIERRE SIMON, LE JEUNE)
Manuel typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title in volume 1, engraved frontispieces by Fessard after De Seve and Gravelot, titles within ornamental borders, 16 double-page engraved plates, 5 folding sheets of music (one printed in red and black), neat pencil annotations in margins of plates, nineteenth century green morocco-backed marbled boards (volume 2 rebacked to match), cloth chemises, morocco-backed slipcases, 8vo, Paris, l'Auteur, and Chez Barbou, 1764-1766
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Fournier's pioneering study of typefounding and punchcutting, illustrated with engraved plates of the tools used for those processes, and "the first successful endeavour to place the measurements of types on a rational basis" (Updike, Printing Types). The second volume is really a type specimen book, illustrating samples of approximately one hundred ancient and modern alphabets.
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