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Pouget, Jean-Henri-Prosper
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Dictionnaire de Chifres et de Lettres Ornees, a l'Usage de tous les Artistes, Contenant les vingt-quatre lettres de l'alphabet. Paris: Tilliard, 1767
- paper, ink, leather
Small 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.; 248 x 184 mm). Half-title, double-page letterpress table, engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, 9 engraved plates of script and 240 engraved plates of ornamental letters and cyphers (13 hand colored). Late 19th century green crushed morocco, bound by Lortic Frères, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Provenance
Baron Raimondo Franchetti (1889-1935, morocco book label)
Literature
BMC 20:790.13; Brunet V:p.848; Bonacini 1466; Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin 5322.
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK ON ORNAMENTAL CYPHERS, MONOGRAMS AND ALPHABETS, BY A NOTED FRENCH JEWELER AND DECORATOR.
Rare, with only a single example appearing in the auction records in the last quarter century.