International standard book number
0901420352
Shelfmark
CSR.1319
Author
Title
Anecdotes typographiques : où l'on voit la description des coutumes, moeurs et usages singuliers des Compagnons imprimeurs / by Nicolas Contat dit Le Brun. La misère des apprentis imprimeurs / by Dufresne ; edited with an introduction and notes by Giles Barber.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1980.
Physical description
viii, 163 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Series statement
(Oxford Bibliographical Society publications ; new ser., v. 20)
Language
Text in French; introduction, notes and appendices in English.
Note
Both works were edited with an introduction and notes by Giles Barber (t. p.).
Note
Anecdotes typographiques was first published in 1762.
Note
La misere des apprentis imprimeurs was first published in 1710.
Provenance
Booklabel on front pastedown, reading: "Ex Libris apud J. S. G. Simmons Oxoniae hospitantibus".
Binding
20th century quarter grey cloth over blue paper boards; black titling on the spine.
Copy-specific note
Reference collection.
Subject
Printers France Paris Biography.
Subject
Printing France Paris History.
Added entry--name
Barber, Giles editor.
Added entry--name
Dufresne Misere des apprentis imprimeurs.
Added entry--name
Simmons, J. S. G. (John Simon Gabriel), 1915 - 2005 former owner.
Added entry--name
Oxford Bibliographical Society publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
fre eng
Identifier
B55034