Sales catalogue 448: Maggs Bros

Date:
1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/27
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 448: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    115 FERTEL (Martin Dominique). La Science Pratique de |’ Imprimerie. Contenant Des Instructions trés-Faciles pour se perfectionner dans cet Art. With numerous illustrations. Ato; old. cali. “Saint-Omer, 1723. £3 3s Contains instructions for setting, and many specimens of chapter-heads, title- pages, etc. Updike, in referring to this work in. his ‘ Printing Types,” says: ‘‘ Domin- ique Fertel, of St. Omer, in his ‘ Science Pratique de l Imprimerie,’ written in 17238, alludes to the lack of precision and uniformity in sizes of type current in his time. It was to remedy this that Pierre Simon Fournier formulated his’ ‘ point system’ in the tractate issued at Paris in 1737. . . . Fertel’s book is in some ways a more useful book for a printer who wants to know how to use type. It is the first treatise written in French, the aim of which was to show how to arrange a book clearly and attractively. It is admir ably done, and should be consulted by anyone wishing to reconstitute French typogr aphvy of the ear ly eighteenth century. Fournier rated Fertel’s work very high.’’ , Bigmore and Wyman also refer to ‘‘ this very curious and esteemed work ”’ (Vol.¥., p. 2'G6): 116 [FICHET (Guillaume).] Fpitre adressée a Robert Gaguin le ler Janvier 1472, par Guillaume Fichet sur Introduction de l’Imprimerie a Paris. Reproduction Héhographique de l’exemplaire unique possédé par Université de Bale. 8vo, loose in portfolio, boards, uncut. Paris, 1880. 8s 6a 117 [FICHET (eaiiwncs PHILIPPE (Jules). Guillaume Fichet, sa Vie, ses Oeuvres. Introduction de l’Imprimerie a Paris.