Apr 25, 2002 - Sale 1933

Sale 1933 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
TORY, GEOFFROY. L'art & science de la vraye proportion des Lettres Attiques, ou Antiques. Woodcut text illustrations chiefly showing letter construction; 13 woodcut alphabets, including Roman, Gothic, Bâtarde, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, "Lettres Fantastiques," "Lettres Utopiques & Volontaires," etc.; 10 monograms. [16], 136 [i. e., 144], [22] (of [24]) leaves; lacks B7, C1, I3-6, S2, and Y1.8. Small 8vo, 18th-century calf gilt; some soiling and marginal dampstaining, old inscriptions on title. Paris: Vivant Gaultherot, 1549
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Second edition of Tory's 1529 Champ fleury, "the most famous single work in the early history of french typography" (Mortimer), concerned with the origin of roman letters and their proper construction, and with French orthography. The alphabets in this copy are complete with the exception of the Lettres Fantastiques, which appear in part on the missing leaf Y1. Harvard/Mortimer-French 526.<