Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou, Le manuel de l'imprimeur : avec 36 planches en taille-douce / Par Ant.-Franç. Momoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Momoro, Antoine-François, 1756-1794.

Contributor:

Delattre, A., illustrator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Printing--Early works to 1800.

Printing.

Printing--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Printing--France--History--18th century.

Imposition (Printing)--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Imposition (Printing).

History.

France.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

iv, 347 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 26 leaves of plates, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Manuel de l'imprimeur

Fingerprint:

ern- s.la eses fode (3) 1796 (R)

Place of Publication:

Paris : Veuve Tilliard [that is, Taillard] & Fils, MDCCLXXXXVI.[1796]

Notes:

A reissue of the sheets of the 1793 edition, with cancel title page.

Signatures: pi²(±pi1) A-X⁸ Y⁶.

The plates include: a folded letterpress table with caption, "Table pour trouver d'un coup-d'oeil le premier chiffre de chaque feuille"; 26 engraved plates (numbered 1-26) of imposition schemes and type-case layouts; an engraved plate of proofreader's marks; and 9 variously numbered (the first numbered "28") engraved plates of printing equipment and printers at work, most by A. Delattre.

Errata: p. [348]

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

12631707