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DAUNOU (Member of the National Institute):;
An analysis of various opinions on the origins of printing. Read at the session of the National Institute on 2 Floréal, Year 10 (1803).
Paris, Baudouin & Renouard, Primaire Year XI (1803).
Large 8vo. 138 pages.
Bound together with:
CAMUS (A. G., Member of the National Institute, Keeper of the Archives of the Republic):
History and Methods of Polytyping and Stereotyping.
Paris. Baudouin, Printer to the National Institute, Year X (1802).
135 pages. 2 fold-out tables.
Large 8°. Half-leather binding with vellum corners, ivory in colour, decorated with gilt metalwork and motifs.
Included is ‘The Will of Louis XVI’, printed by Jules Didot Aîné in microscopic type.
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