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MIDOLLE, JEAN. Album du Moyen-Age. Uncolored lithographed frontispiece portrait of Midolle; lithographed pictorial title and 27 plates after designs by him, partly color-printed and meticulously hand-finished, some heightened with silver or gold; vari-colored plate guards. Oblong folio, 257x374 mm, contemporary morocco-backed red boards with blue coated paper endleaves, rebacked retaining original backstrip; portrait foxed. Strasbourg: E. Simon fils, 1836
another virtuoso display of color printing, the separate issue of a selection of plates of ornamental alphabets and elaborately embellished writing specimens from Midolle's Galérie, Écritures Anciennes, and Spécimen des Écritures Modernes, which had been published by Simon in 1834-35.
