$410
Estimate: $600 - $900
Auction: May 20, 2021 1:00:00 PM EDT
Toulon: Chez Aug. Aurel, 1819. First edition. 8vo. (vi), viii, 210 pp. Quarter brown calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, red morocco spine label, over marbled paper-covered boards; all edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; lacking engraved folding plate; book-plate on front paste-down.
One of the earliest guides to the printing craft, printed only a year after lithography inventor Alois Senefelder's revolutionary printing manual Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei.