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Home / Forest Books William Laywood / Rare and modern books / Typographiae excellentia [Líexcellence de líimprimerie. PoÎme latin]. Paris: 1754. Second edition of the Latin poem, first edition of the French translation, 28, [2]pp., half-title, double titles in Latin and French, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Daulle, 2 etched plates (one folding) of a typefoundry and a printing shop, foremargin shaved with slight loss of image on folding plate, text closely cropped effecting imprint and a few letters and words to several foremargins. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Scalptura Carmen [La Gravure PoÎme]. Paris: Le Mercier, 1753. Second edition in Latin, first edition of the French translation, xii, 76, xii, [1]-90, [2]pp. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Sculptura Carmen [La Sculpture PoÎme].

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Thiboust (Claude Louis)

Typographiae excellentia [Líexcellence de líimprimerie. PoÎme latin]. Paris: 1754. Second edition of the Latin poem, first edition of the French translation, 28, [2]pp., half-title, double titles in Latin and French, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Daulle, 2 etched plates (one folding) of a typefoundry and a printing shop, foremargin shaved with slight loss of image on folding plate, text closely cropped effecting imprint and a few letters and words to several foremargins. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Scalptura Carmen [La Gravure PoÎme]. Paris: Le Mercier, 1753. Second edition in Latin, first edition of the French translation, xii, 76, xii, [1]-90, [2]pp. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Sculptura Carmen [La Sculpture PoÎme].

Paris: Le Mercier, 1757.,

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Author
Thiboust (Claude Louis)
Publishers
Paris: Le Mercier, 1757.
Keyword
PRINTING TYPOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS POETRY, TECHNOLOGY

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viii, 94, [2], [1]-120, [4]pp., with half-title. 3 works bound in one (the first named bound last), cont. mottled sheep, worn. The second edition of this poem on the different technical processes involved in printing. This edition was published by Claude Charles Thiboust, his father, Cluade Louis Thiboust, was the author of the poem, and had originally printed it in 1718. The family of Thilboust occupies a distinguished place in the list of French typographers, having started printing in Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century, with successive members of the family being appointed to be Printers to the University. This is followed by two editions of Doissenís poem on engraving. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p. 8; I, p. 183;
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