May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMMES, ANDRÉ. La Réforme de la Typographie Royale sous Louis XIV: Le Grandjean. 110 engravings on 34 leaves showing specimens of letter construction. Folio, 500x330 mm, text booklet with engraved frontispiece, table, and 5 illustrations, laid with loose plates, as issued, in gilt-lettered, vellum-backed board folding case, flaps of case a bit toned and separating at folds. Paris, 1961
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number 36 of only 100 copies of a collection of previously unpublished designs for the new Romain du Roi type cut for Louis XIV by the royal printer Philippe Grandjean, for the exclusive use of the Imprimerie Royale.