Livre de prières : tissé d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle.

Timespan:

France -- Lyon.

Date:

1886

Identifier:

9978137695203681; (OCoLC)948879235; (OCoLC)ocn948879235

Language:

French; Latin

Publisher:

Lyon : [A. Roux], mdccclxxxvi [1886 i.e. between 1886 and 1887]

Subject:

Jacquard weaving -- France -- Lyon -- Specimens.; Livres de prières -- France -- Lyon.; Tissage à la Jacquard -- France -- Lyon -- Spécimens.; Enluminure française -- France -- Lyon -- 19e siècle.; Éditions de luxe -- France -- Lyon -- Spécimens.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- France -- Lyon -- 19th century.; Prayer books -- France -- Lyon.; Fine books.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.; Jacquard weaving.; Prayer books.; Fine books -- France -- Lyon -- Specimens.; Prayers and devotions.; Specimens.; Signed bindings (Binding); Morocco bindings (Binding) -- France -- Lyon -- 19th century.; Cloth printings (Printing)

Resource Type:

Books

Physical Description:

[10], i-xliii, [5] p.; ill,; 17 cm

Personal Name:

Kauffmann, J. (Bookbinder) binding designer, binder.; Hervier, R. P. J., active 1886-1887, book designer.; Roux, A. (Printer), active 1885, publisher.; Henry, J. A., active 1878-1887, artist.

Geographic Subject:

France -- Lyon.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Printed on silk including silk end sheets, latter mounted to fabric of binding.; Ornamental borders on all sheets; also four full-size illustrations.; LC copy has accompanying printed dealer description and typescript of a related article (from 1889) published in Bulletin du bibliophile. Former suggests manufacture/publication dates 1886-1888. Also describes binding as Jansenist in style on aubergine morocco. Binding is stamped "J. Kauffmann" (in front) and "Ch. Meunier" (in back). Doublures of blue or green morocco are richly gilt with red morocco inlays. Five raised bands on the spine. Top and bottom edge gilt. This copy is preserved in its original velvet-lined box. Box and volume further enclosed in a protective preservation box with dealer description and typescript article laid in (inside protective envelope).; Manufacture of the volume employed the Jacquard method (Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1752-1834) of using punch cards which J.A. Henry first used with Les laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn. Reproduit en caractères tissés avec license des propriétaires éditeurs (by Alphonse de Lamartine) in 1883. That earlier title is the true "first book 'printed' by computer". Over a two-year period, 50-60 copies of Livre de prières were produced. According to book historian Michael Laird, several hundred thousand cards (estimated between 106,000 and 500,000) were required; Colophon: Cet ouvrage a été heureusement achevé à Lyon le viii Sept. la̓n de 17.S. mdccclxxxvii sur les dessins du R.P.J. Hervier S.M. par J.A. Henry, fabricant. A. Roux libraire éditeur Lyon.

Physical Location:

BX2113 .L58 1886