Charles Enschedé
De Erven F.Bohn Haarlem 1908
Original gilt & blind-stamped cloth XXXIV (2) 404 pages
4 tinted plates (tipped-in) 519 mostly full-page facsimiles of type-specimens ornaments etc
Printed on hand-made paper edges untrimmed Folio
Text in French
Price: € 850.00
A fine, impeccable copy of the first edition of this famous, sumptuously illustrated and learned history of types and vignettes used in the Netherlands from the 15th up to the end of the 19th century.
Charles Enschedé (1855-1919) became director of the Enschedé foundry in 1887; he took a great historical interest in the typefounding trade, and it was he who laid the foundations for the current Museum Enschedé.
McMurtrie:924. Lane/Lommen:page 64-65.
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