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La science pratique de l'imprimerie : contenant des instructions trés-faciles pour se perfectionner dans cet art : on y trouvera une description de toutes les pieces dont une presse est construite, avec le moyen de remedier à tous les défauts qui peuvent y survenir : avec une methode nouvelle & fort aisée pour imposer toutes sortes d'impositions, depuis l'in-folio jusqu'à l'in-cent-vingt-huit : de plus, on y a joint des tables pour sçavoir ce que les caracteres inferieurs regagnent sur ceux qui leur sont superieurs, & un tarif pour trouver, d'un coup d'œil, combien de formes contiendra une copie à imprimer, trés-utile pour les auteurs & marchands libraires qui sont imprimer leurs ouvrages à leurs dépens : le tout representé avec des figures en bois & en taille douce.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z244.A2 F45 1723
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fertel, Martin-Dominique, 1684-1752.
Contributor:
Fertel, Martin-Dominique, 1684-1752, printer.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Printing--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
Printing.
Imposition (Printing)--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
Imposition (Printing).
Genre:
Handbooks and manuals.
Penn Provenance:
Henneguier, Charles, 1780-1847 (stamp)
Bullrich, Eduardo J. (label)
Physical Description:
20 unnumbered pages, 230 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 231-292 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)
Place of Publication:
A Saint Omer : Par Martin Dominique Fertel, imprimeur & marchand libraire, rue des Espeérs, à l'Image de Saint Bertin, MDCCXXIII [1723]
Notes:
Dedication signed: Martin Dominique Fertel.
French printer's manual with a focus on typographic design and layout of title pages; includes specimen title pages.
First issue of work; later reissued in 1741 with first and last gatherings reset.
Signatures: *² 2*-3*⁴ A-2P⁴
Title printed in red and black.
Woodcuts: title vignette of St. Francis; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Includes index.
Errata: page [301].
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Penn Libraries copy purchased in 2015 from Roger Gaskell Rare Books.
Penn Libraries copy bound in 19th century calf-backed boards.
Penn Libraries copy has leather gilt stamped book label of Eduardo J. Bullrich; copy includes ms. pencil note recording lot number and price of "Bullrich sale" from Sotheby's March 19, 1952. Bullrich's library later became the property of D.L. Alvear. Cf. Catalogue of the important and valuable library formed by the late E.J. Bullrich and now the property of D.L. Alvear.
Penn Libraries copy with armorial ink stamp of Charles Henneguier.
Cited in:
Bigmore, E.C. Bibliography of printing, I, p. 215-216
Gaskell, Barber and Warrilow, Printer's manuals, F1
Other Format:
Online version: Fertel, Martin-Dominique, 1684-1752. Science pratique de l'imprimerie.
OCLC:
4378640

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