Essai d'une nouvelle typographie :. ornée de vignettes, fleurons, trophées, filets, cadres & cartels, inventés, dessinés & exécutés /. par L. Luce, graveur du roi, pour son Imprimerie Royale, a été commencée en l'année 1740 & finie en 1770..
Luce, Louis, -1774
Category
Books
Date
1771
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3008627
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10] p., 93 plates (11 fold.) ;. 4to. Accession no. 3223. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Louis XVI. Manuscript note of Vibert fils, recording his gift in 1842; Alkan aîné; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.50. Binding: late eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt, made-up arms of Louis XVI as dauphin on covers. Flat back, olive lettering-piece and small curl tool. Green and yellow headbands, green silk marker, gilt edges, leaf-marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Luce, Louis, -1774