Item #53019 ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF. Claude Motteroz.
ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF
ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF
ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF

ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF:

Paris: Héliographique des Chemins de Fer, Motteroz, 1879. Second edition. 12mo., [vi], 79 pp., 2 b&w lithographic plates. Original printed blue wrappers bound in a l;atter half calf with gilded spine decorations. Scattered foxing, with 2 engraved bookplates of former owners. Joints and edges are rubbed, with mild wrinkling to the cloth on the upper cover. Very good. Item #53019

Claude Motteroz was born in 1830, at Romanèche (Saône-et-Loire) into an old family of printers. As a typographer and printer, the Municipal Council of Paris awarded him several contracts to print its school books and official publications. In 1874, he established in Paris a large workshop for many forms of photomechanical reproductions.

This volume is a discourse and procedural on the various processes of Barreswil, Lemercier, Poitevin, Sendefelder, Tissier, Woodbury, and others. Printed entirely by heliogravure, this is a reissue of the 1871 Gauthier-Villiars edition, with a slightly different title printed on the wrappers, REPRODUCTION HÉLIOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ESSAI SUR LES GRAVURES CHIMIQUES EN RELIEF, a new introduction, and limited to 100 numbered copies, of which this is No. 2.

OCLC locates seven copies of the first edition and a single copy of this limited reissue at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Not listed by Roosens and Salu.

Price: $600.00

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