(Typography) - DEGAAST (Georges) and Georges FROT. The Graph - Lot 236

(Typography) - DEGAAST (Georges) and Georges FROT. The Graphic Arts. Technical Lectures on Book Production. Paris, published at the authors’ expense, 1934. In-4, [5 ff], 324 pp., [2 ff.], publisher’s illustrated cardboard binding, lower cap torn off. Illustrated with numerous figures in the text and separate plates on various types of paper, some in relief and in Braille, one embossed plate, and a few in color. Included: - DÉCEMBRE & ALONNIER. Typographers and Men of Letters. New edition enriched with illustrations and a glossary-index. Bassac, Plein Chant, 2002. Small 8vo, 478 pp., [1 f.], paperback. The first edition of this text was published by Michel Lévy in 1864. A talented typographer has published this new edition, which he has considerably expanded: an introduction, a very comprehensive and fascinating two-column glossary spanning pages 367 to 467, and numerous portraits and vignettes, judiciously selected from a first-rate personal collection. All these additions, and particularly the glossary, make this edition a new book. The print run was limited to 500 copies. - LEFÈVRE (Théotiste). Practical Guide for Compositors and Typographic Printers. Paris, 1883 (Reprint, 1999). 2 parts in one sturdy in-8 volume, [3 ff], XIV pp, [1 f], 720 pp, [10 ff], paperback. A fundamental work illustrated with numerous figures, illustrations, models, typefaces, examples, etc. - LHUILLIER (P.). The Typographer. Paris, Eyrolles, 1929. In-8, half-basane, smooth spine decorated with four gilt fillets, original cover preserved. Ex-libris. 184 pp., vignettes in the text. - FOURNIER (Pierre-Simon). *Typographic Manual*. Followed by: *Fournier on Typefounding*, an English translation of the text by Harry Carter. In facsimile, with an introduction and notes by James Mosley. Paris, 1764–1768, and London, 1930 (Reprint, 1995). 3 volumes, in-12, [3 ff], XXXII, 323, [5 pp], 16 folding plates; [3 ff], 306 pp (including one fold-out leaf) and [3 ff], 49 pp, [1 f], XXXVII pp, [3 ff], 496 pp, publisher’s gray cloth, title label. This elegant reprint contains, in sequence: the two volumes of Fournier’s *Manuel typographique* and the English translation published in 1930 under the title *Fournier on Type Founding*. Also included: - LE ROY (Florian). *Les Caractères de l’imprimerie nationale*. Engravings and quotations. Paris, Éditions Richelieu, 1945. In-8, 140 pp, paperback. Numerous full-page illustrations.