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DIDOT, Pierre (1761-1853, the elder). Essai d'un nouveau caractère, offrant un essai lyrique. Paris: the author and Jules Didot fils, 1821.
4o (240 x 165 mm). Collation: [12 2-34], 10 leaves. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of at least two copies. Blue cloth. Provenance: Robert Hoe (1839-1909, New York collector, printing industrialist), inscribed by him in pencil in August 1894 to fellow Grolier Club founder -- Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914, foremost American printer), bookplate -- James Cummins (bookseller since 1978), sold in 1995 to Dr Breslauer.
Perhaps the UNIQUELY SURVIVING COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM, as the only other recorded copy at the Tuileries palace was presumably burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 (see Van Praet, Vélins des Bibliothèques IV, 55.89 ter). The three odes serving for the new-type specimen are "Contre la passion du jeu", "Sur le bonheur", and "A la reconnoissance." It was published as a supplement to Specimen des nouveaux caractères de l'imprimerie et de la fonderie de Pierre Didot, l'aîné, et Jules Didot, fils (1819). REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY from the collections of the two most prominent figures in American printing and collecting at the end of the 19th century. Birrell & Garnett p. 24; Jammes, Les Didot 63.
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Perhaps the UNIQUELY SURVIVING COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM, as the only other recorded copy at the Tuileries palace was presumably burned during the Paris Commune of 1871 (see Van Praet, Vélins des Bibliothèques IV, 55.89 ter). The three odes serving for the new-type specimen are "Contre la passion du jeu", "Sur le bonheur", and "A la reconnoissance." It was published as a supplement to Specimen des nouveaux caractères de l'imprimerie et de la fonderie de Pierre Didot, l'aîné, et Jules Didot, fils (1819). REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY from the collections of the two most prominent figures in American printing and collecting at the end of the 19th century. Birrell & Garnett p. 24; Jammes, Les Didot 63.