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2 volumes, 8vo (161 x 103 mm) engraved frontispiece, XXXII, 323 pp., 2 nn.ll., 16 planches folding plates in vol. I; engraved frontispiece, 1 nn. l., XLIV pp., 1 nn. leaf, 306 pp. with different types of characters. Contemporary speckled calf, triple gilt fillet on covers, flat spine gilt, gilt edges. (hinges rubbed).
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Bigmore-Wyman I, 228.
First edition.
"The Manuel Typographique is a work which no student of French typography can afford to be without. The simplicity of the author's style, his naïve pride in his own performances, and its mass of information make a book which will become a favourite with anyone who reads it" (Updike, Printing Types, I, p. 265).
"Fournier's Typographical Manual should be in every printing office" (Dibdin, in : Bigmore-Wyman).
Fine copy, possibly printed on large paper as indicates Bigmore-Wyman in his note : "Copies on large paper are of the greatest rarity".
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