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134 - (Provincial Printing Houses) – HOUDOY (Jules).
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(Provincial Printing Houses) – HOUDOY (Jules). The Printers of Lille. A Bibliography of Lille Publications, 1595–1700. Paris, Damascène Morgand, 1879. Large 8vo, XXII, 391 pp, Bradel-style cardboard binding, cover preserved, wide margins. First edition. Limited edition of 300 copies, all numbered on Holland paper. A history of Lille’s printers, including a list of publications issued from their presses... ‘the majority of which are by local authors’. Index of authors and anonymous publications. - CLÉMENT-JANIN (M. H.). Printers and Booksellers in the Côte d’Or. Dijon, 1883 (Reprint, 1971). In-8, VII, 238 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. Indexes of names and books cited. Portrait and illustrations in the text. - CLOUZOT (Henri). Notes on the History of Printing in Niort and the Deux-Sèvres. Niort, Clouzot, 1891. In-8, [2 ff], III, 163 pp, [1 f], paperback. The author compiles a list and recounts the history of the printers of Niort and their publications, from the origins of printing in that town (late 16th century) to the Revolution. Table of contents. A few facsimiles. - DESGRAVES (Louis). Thomas Portau, printer in Saumur (1601–1623). Paris, 1908. In-8 booklet, paperback. pp. 63–133. Extract from the Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes. Vol. CXXVI, 1968). Included: - (Colportage) - MUSA (Bernard). History of a Lille printer: Simon-François Blocquel, 1780–1863. Lille, Vauban Collections, 2006. 8vo, 303 pp, paperback. An impressive work in which the author, following some interesting introductory notes, describes no fewer than 2,479 items. Index of titles and authors. Figures and vignettes within the text, 4 folios of illustrations, in black and colour, as separate plates.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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