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FIRMIN-DIDOT, Firmin – Catalogue des livres rares, précieux et très-bien conditionnés du cabinet de M. Firmin Didot. Paris: De Bure père et fils... De l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot, 1810. 8° (220 x 140mm). (Some occasional light spotting.) Uncut and mostly unopened in the original lavender boards, spine titled in manuscript (spine with large chips at head and foot and with small repairs, spine and top edges sunned). Provenance: A.N.L. Munby (1913-1974; label).
THE MUNBY COPY, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Didot, besides being a book collector, was a typefounder and engraver who, according to the preface, decided to sell his collection in order to focus on his art as a typographer. Especially rich in the editiones principes of the Latin and Greek authors, Didot's collection also included the Abbé Rive's copy of the Gutenberg Bible which bought-in at 1,000 francs and is now in the New York Public Library. Blogie II, col. 29; Brunet I, 1644; North 501.
THE MUNBY COPY, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Didot, besides being a book collector, was a typefounder and engraver who, according to the preface, decided to sell his collection in order to focus on his art as a typographer. Especially rich in the editiones principes of the Latin and Greek authors, Didot's collection also included the Abbé Rive's copy of the Gutenberg Bible which bought-in at 1,000 francs and is now in the New York Public Library. Blogie II, col. 29; Brunet I, 1644; North 501.
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