(Typography) - JAMMES (Isabelle and André). Collection of Ty - Lot 238

(Typography) - JAMMES (Isabelle and André). Collection of Type Specimens. 1517–2004. Paris, Éditions des Cendres, 2006. Large quarto, 394 pp., [1 f.], publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Catalog presented and edited by Isabelle and André Jammes, booksellers in Paris. Through 277 meticulously presented entries, it traces the history of the evolution, uniqueness, and richness of all types of typefaces. It is superbly illustrated, often with full-page images, in black-and-white and color. The price list is attached on a loose leaf. Also included: - Specimens of typefaces by Firmin and Jules Didot. Preface by André Jammes. Paris, Éditions des Cendres, 2003. Folio format, title cover, preface, 16 pp: table of plates, 33 plates of typefaces and vignettes (including 19 double plates), all on loose sheets in a slipcase. The 1998 exhibition held in Paris, *Les Didot: Three Centuries of Typography*, brought to light a previously unpublished series of large-format sheets displaying the typefaces and vignettes from the foundries of Firmin and Jules Didot. “The significance of Jules Didot’s contribution to the evolution of typographic style is revealed here for the first time.” Limited edition of 275 copies. - JIMENES (Rémi). Les Caractères de Civilité. Typography and Calligraphy under the Ancien Régime. Preface by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 2011. In-4, 120 pp., illustrated hardcover by the publisher. “In 1557, Robert Granjon invented a typeface that reproduced the very fluid handwriting of French Renaissance secretaries. This cursive typeface would be used until the 19th century, particularly for printing numerous manuals on etiquette. It is now known as the ‘courtesy typeface.’” Four-color illustrations. - AUDIN (Marius). Typographic Catalogs of French Foundries Established Before 1800. A Historical and Bibliographic Study. (Paris, 1934). Bound with: HOWE (E.). *French Type Specimen Books*. (London, 1952). These two works were reprinted in 1964. In-4, 223 pp., 65 plates, publisher’s cloth binding.