REYRAC, François-Philippe de Laurens, abbé de

Hymn to the Sun Paris, Royal Printing House, 1783 THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE NEW ANISSON-DUPERRON PRESS : "À BRAS À UN COUP". BEAUTIFUL PRESENT COPY IN BLUE MOROCCO WITH THE ROYAL ARMS In-4 (203 x 122 mm). With the introductory leaflet: "First proof of a new press invented for the service of the Royal Printing Office; and approved by the Academy of Sciences on May 17, 1783". ISSUE : one of the very rare copies printed on strong wove paper and bound in morocco with the royal coat of arms, which François Ambroise Didot (1730-1804) had just started to manufacture in France, in Annonay BINDING OF THE PERIOD. Blue morocco, gilt decoration by the royal arms, spine with vertical titling: "proof of the new press of the royal print", red tabis lining, gilt edges Small hole in the first lining The invention of this new press was due as much to Étienne Anisson-Duperron (1749-1794) as to Didot. A controversy followed. BIBLIOGRAPHY : cf. Bibliotheca bibliographica breslaueriana, Brussels, 1986, n° 18, then New York, May 21, 2005, I, n° 66 -- Brunet IV, col. 1262: "this edition is rare only in vellum paper" -- Quérard VII, 571 : "Edition of the greatest beauty, become rare, because it was pulled only for some friends" -- André Jammes, Les Didot, n°59 WEBOGRAPHY : https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2019/03/21/premiere-imprimerie-royale/