Book production - Typefounding and typography - France

Lot Comprises:

André Jammes, La réforme de la Typographie royale sous Louis XIV: La naissance d'un caractère, Le Grandjean, (Paris 1961), reprinted Paris, Editions Promodis, 1985, fol., orange cloth gilt

Albert Joseph George, The Didot family and the progress of printing. A brief review of the development and accomplishments of the House of Didot, with facsimile pages and translation of Epitre sur les Progres de l'Imprimerie, written by Pierre Didot, printed in 1784 in italic type designed by his younger brother, Firmin, & dedicated to their father, François-Ambroise Didot, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1961, 8vo., publisher's tan cloth, dust jacket

Harry Carter & Hendrik Desire Louis Vervliet, Civilité Types (Oxford Bibliographical Society publications, New series, 14), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1966, 4to., publisher's half grey cloth over blue boards

André Jammes, "Didotiana" (off‐print from Bulletin du Bibliophile, 1990-1993), 4to., printed wrappers, presentation inscription by the author to T. Kimball Brooker

Jean Paillard, Claude Garamont: graveur et fondeur de lettres: étude hitorique, (Paris 1914), reprint La Courneuve, 1969, 4to., publisher's red printed wrappers

Harry Carter, ed., Sixteenth‐Century French Typefounders: The Le Bé Memorandum, Paris, [Privately printed for A. Jammes], 1967, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectus, London, The Bibliographical Society, 2010, fol., navy blue cloth

Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth‐Century Typefaces, Leiden, Brill, 2008, 4to., 2 vols., publisher's cloth, dust jacket

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