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VILLETTE Charles-Michel de (1736-1793)
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VILLETTE Charles-Michel de (1736-1793)
Works of the Marquis de Villette
London [Manufacture royale de papeterie de Langlée, près de Montargis], 1786. In-16 (124 x 80 mm), 156 pp.-[20] ff. Full burgundy morocco, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth ornamented spine, green morocco title-piece, interior roulette, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, dominoté paper end-papers (period binding).
A very rare typographical curiosity, often presented as "the first book printed entirely on vegetable paper" (Frédéric Barbier), produced by Pierre Alexandre Léorier-Delisle (1744-1826), director of the Langlée paper mill, near Montargis.
With the present volume, Léorier-Delisle took the experiment initiated by the German Jacob Christian Schaeffer even further. The print was made on lime bark paper, with twenty sample sheets at the end of the volume of papers made from elm, willow and other species of bark, cuckoo wood, nettle, moss, reed, preserves, couch grass roots, thistles, etc.
Second collective edition of the works of the sulphurous Marquis de Villette, the work contains numerous pieces in verse, but also beautiful letters to Voltaire, of whom Villette was a fervent admirer.
Beautiful copy.
REFERENCES F. Barbier, "Les Innovations techniques", Histoire de l'édition française, II, 545 - A. Basanoff, "Le Papier botanique", RFHL, 1977, pp. 107-135.
(Binding in used condition, gilt inscription on upper board largely scratched off| wetness on coudrier paper f., and slight tear in margin of charcoal paper f.).
Works of the Marquis de Villette
London [Manufacture royale de papeterie de Langlée, près de Montargis], 1786. In-16 (124 x 80 mm), 156 pp.-[20] ff. Full burgundy morocco, triple gilt fillet on the boards, smooth ornamented spine, green morocco title-piece, interior roulette, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges, dominoté paper end-papers (period binding).
A very rare typographical curiosity, often presented as "the first book printed entirely on vegetable paper" (Frédéric Barbier), produced by Pierre Alexandre Léorier-Delisle (1744-1826), director of the Langlée paper mill, near Montargis.
With the present volume, Léorier-Delisle took the experiment initiated by the German Jacob Christian Schaeffer even further. The print was made on lime bark paper, with twenty sample sheets at the end of the volume of papers made from elm, willow and other species of bark, cuckoo wood, nettle, moss, reed, preserves, couch grass roots, thistles, etc.
Second collective edition of the works of the sulphurous Marquis de Villette, the work contains numerous pieces in verse, but also beautiful letters to Voltaire, of whom Villette was a fervent admirer.
Beautiful copy.
REFERENCES F. Barbier, "Les Innovations techniques", Histoire de l'édition française, II, 545 - A. Basanoff, "Le Papier botanique", RFHL, 1977, pp. 107-135.
(Binding in used condition, gilt inscription on upper board largely scratched off| wetness on coudrier paper f., and slight tear in margin of charcoal paper f.).