Pierre DIDOT, son. Essai de fables nouvelles... - Lot 63 - Pescheteau-Badin

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Pierre DIDOT, son. Essai de fables nouvelles... - Lot 63 - Pescheteau-Badin
Pierre DIDOT, son. Essai de fables nouvelles dédiées au Roi ; suivies de Poésies diverses et d'une épître sur les progrès de l'imprimerie. Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1786. In-12, havana Russian leather, framed with a double gilt fillet and a cold roulette, large cold diamond-shaped iron in the center of the boards, spine with 5 nerves decorated, inner gilt roulette, marbled edges (Binding from the very beginning of the 19th century). Brunet, II-701 /// 150-(3f.). First edition of this work testifying to the close collaboration between the Didots, with a text written by the eldest son Pierre, and published by his father François Ambroise using the typefaces of his second son Firmin, as well as to the multiple talents of this family whose members were, in turn and at the same time, printers-librarians, engravers and type founders, paper makers, etc. A fine copy.
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