Livre de prières : tissé d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henry, J. A., active 1878-1887, artist.

Hervier, R. P. J., active 1886-1887, book designer.

Roux, A. (Printer), active 1885, publisher.

Magnin, Mireille, binder.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Prayer books--France--Lyon.

Prayer books.

Jacquard weaving--France--Lyon--Specimens.

Jacquard weaving.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, French--France--Lyon--19th century.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.

Fine books--France--Lyon--Specimens.

Fine books.

Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.

Catholic Church.

France--Lyon.

Genre:

Prayers and devotions.

Specimens.

Cloth printings (Printing)

Signed bindings (Binding)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Marsot, Léon (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Marsot, Jeanne (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Floccard, Jacques (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[6], i-xliii, [1] pages ; illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Lyon : [A. Roux], mdccclxxxvi [1886, i.e. between 1886 and 1887]

Notes:

"Cet ouvrage a été heureusement achevé à Lyon le viii Sept. l'an de N.S. mdccclxxxvii sur les dessins du R.P.J. Hervier S.M. par J.A. Henry, fabricant. A. Roux libraire éditeur Lyon."--Colophon.

Printed on silk including silk end sheets, latter mounted to fabric of binding.

Ornamental borders on all sheets; also four full-size illustrations.

Manufacture of the volume employed the Jacquard method (Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1752-1834) of using punch cards which J.A. Henry first used with Les laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn. Reproduit en caractères tissés avec license des propriétaires éditeurs (by Alphonse de Lamartine) in 1883. That earlier title is the true "first book 'printed' by computer". Over a two-year period, 50-60 copies of Livre de prières were produced. According to book historian Michael Laird, several hundred thousand cards (estimated between 106,000 and 500,000) were required

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Conan Belleville with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy has laid in business card of Léon Marsot, président du conseil général d'administration des Hospices Civils de Lyon with partially illegible manuscript inscription in blue ink ("[..] souvenir de sa tante Jeanne Marsot je désire que ce livre de prières [...] Jacques Floccard L Marsot").

Kislak Center copy bound by Mireille Magnin (with her gold stamp on tail turn-in of left board) in full black morocco; boards tooled in gold; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; black, red and gold brocade doublures; decorative free endpapers; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title stamped in gold on spine. Housed in decorative paper slip case with black morocco borders at opening.

OCLC:

948879235

Online:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page