Author: CHRISTIAN, ARTHUR.
Title: Origines de L'Imprimerie en France.
Description: 2. Conferences 25 Juillet et 17 Août 1900. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1900. Sm. folio. (LVIII), 128 pp. In wrappers (damaged and dogeared). Needs rebinding. However, Christian's autogr. presentation-copy.* Important, richly illustrated essays on early printing in France, by the director of the Imprimerie Nationale. Printed in the Garamond Type used in 1640 for the Imprimerie Nationale's first book. Contains i.a.: Ecriture artificielle avant Gutenberg; Gutenberg; l'Etablissement de l'imprimerie en France; le premier livre français imprimé à Paris; la gravure introduite dans le livre, etc..

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