A set of twenty-five loose plates of calligraphy samples.
by (CALLIGRAPHY)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lavardin, France
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About This Item
No place, no date, but all French, late 18th, early 19th century. Size mostly c. 30 x 45 cm. (uncut, edges a bit dustsoiled, a few traces of folds and some marginal tears but generally in a good condition).
Calligraphy manuals could be bought as complete works but it was also possible to buy the plates separately and thus assemble a personal collection of samples of writing. These plates were obviously collected as such. They were never bound. For some plates we can find out in which works they were included, for others we cannot.
A few of the plates show the postures recommended for writing; most of the other plates are phrases to copy and examples of writing.
Some titles of the plates: "taille et tenue de la plume", "situation du corps", "table de Pithagore". We find names of engravers: "Huet et Baublé fils, Ellis d'Avignon, Bourgoin engraved Bariolle, Dizambourg, Vorms d'Avignon, Lechard, Boulanger engraved by Pelicier, De Milns, De Fresse. Plates mostly printed by Basset, some by Langlumé and Peltier. One plates is by a women engraver: "V.L.F.me S. All in all an interesting collection of French calligraphy plates published around 1800.
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- Bookseller
- Knuf Rare Books (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102620
- Title
- A set of twenty-five loose plates of calligraphy samples.
- Author
- (CALLIGRAPHY)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- France
- Date Published
- late 18th-early 19th cent.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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