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BOISSIEU (Alphonse de). Ancient inscriptions of Lyon reproduced according to the monuments or collected in the authors. Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1846-1854. 6 volumes in-folio bound, cover with the medal dated 1846. Printed at 500 copies. It is to the order of this work that Louis Perrin gave up the use of Didot characters and that he employed for the FIRST TIME his Roman Augustan characters. Magnificent impression decorated with very numerous inscriptions and figures in the text which appeared initially in deliveries and whose invaluable preface provides excellent information on the birth of the Augusta. Ambroise Firmin-Didot will say of this work "It is a real masterpiece, it will be mentioned in the new edition that I am preparing of my history of typography". Some foxing.
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BOISSIEU (Alphonse de). Ancient inscriptions of Lyon reproduced according to the monuments or collected in the authors. Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1846-1854. 6 volumes in-folio bound, cover with the medal dated 1846. Printed at 500 copies. It is to the order of this work that Louis Perrin gave up the use of Didot characters and that he employed for the FIRST TIME his Roman Augustan characters. Magnificent impression decorated with very numerous inscriptions and figures in the text which appeared initially in deliveries and whose invaluable preface provides excellent information on the birth of the Augusta. Ambroise Firmin-Didot will say of this work "It is a real masterpiece, it will be mentioned in the new edition that I am preparing of my history of typography". Some foxing.
