Académie Royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions. Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1702, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Charles Simonneau after Antoine Coypel engraved armorial to title with outer decorative border (lower blank margin excised & repaired), numerous engraved medallions throughout, decorative borders engraved by Simonneau after Berain, typeface designed by Grandjean, occasional light scattered spotting, without marbled free endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, old paper label at head & foot of spine, covers lightly marked, 4to, together with: Julian Emperor of Rome 331-363, Les Cesars de l'Empereur Julien, traduits du Grec. Par feu Mr. le baron de Spanheim, avec des remarques & des preuves, enrichies de plus de 300. medailles, & autres anciens monumens. Graves par Bernard Picart le romain, Amsterdam: F. L'Honoré, 1728, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, numerous engraved illustrations of medallions, scattered spotting throughout and occasional light dust-soiling, bookplate of Patricia Milne-Henderson to upper pastedown, modern blind panelled dark brown calf, morocco title labels relaid, 4to, Velázquez (Luis José), Ensayo sobre los alphabetos de las letras desconocidas, que se encuentran en las mas antiguas medallas y monumentos de España. por don Luis Joseph Velazquez ... de la Academia Real de la Historia. Escrito, revisto y publicado de Orden de la misma Academia, Madrid: en la oficina de Antonio Sanz..., 1752, engraved vignette to title, twenty engraved plates at rear, few minor marks including occasional light dampstaining to for-edge margins of few leaves, 20th century cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed green skiver title label to spine, 4to (Qty: 3) The first work, a medallic history of Louis XIV, the Sun King, is a typographic tour-de-force, and a fine example of royal publicity. In 1692 the French Academy of Sciences set up a committee to establish standards for all crafts; as a result of which Jacques Jaugeon produced in 1695 a 'rational' design for letters, in which they all have a perfectly vertical axis and perfectly horizontal, symmetrical serifs, far removed from the more flowing forms of ancient or Renaissance lettering. Philippe Grandjean was commissioned to cut punches based on Jaugeon's designs, and modified them to form the 'roman du roi' first used here.
Académie Royale des Médailles et des Inscriptions. Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1702, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Charles Simonneau after Antoine Coypel engraved armorial to title with outer decorative border (lower blank margin excised & repaired), numerous engraved medallions throughout, decorative borders engraved by Simonneau after Berain, typeface designed by Grandjean, occasional light scattered spotting, without marbled free endpapers, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, old paper label at head & foot of spine, covers lightly marked, 4to, together with: Julian Emperor of Rome 331-363, Les Cesars de l'Empereur Julien, traduits du Grec. Par feu Mr. le baron de Spanheim, avec des remarques & des preuves, enrichies de plus de 300. medailles, & autres anciens monumens. Graves par Bernard Picart le romain, Amsterdam: F. L'Honoré, 1728, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, numerous engraved illustrations of medallions, scattered spotting throughout and occasional light dust-soiling, bookplate of Patricia Milne-Henderson to upper pastedown, modern blind panelled dark brown calf, morocco title labels relaid, 4to, Velázquez (Luis José), Ensayo sobre los alphabetos de las letras desconocidas, que se encuentran en las mas antiguas medallas y monumentos de España. por don Luis Joseph Velazquez ... de la Academia Real de la Historia. Escrito, revisto y publicado de Orden de la misma Academia, Madrid: en la oficina de Antonio Sanz..., 1752, engraved vignette to title, twenty engraved plates at rear, few minor marks including occasional light dampstaining to for-edge margins of few leaves, 20th century cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed green skiver title label to spine, 4to (Qty: 3) The first work, a medallic history of Louis XIV, the Sun King, is a typographic tour-de-force, and a fine example of royal publicity. In 1692 the French Academy of Sciences set up a committee to establish standards for all crafts; as a result of which Jacques Jaugeon produced in 1695 a 'rational' design for letters, in which they all have a perfectly vertical axis and perfectly horizontal, symmetrical serifs, far removed from the more flowing forms of ancient or Renaissance lettering. Philippe Grandjean was commissioned to cut punches based on Jaugeon's designs, and modified them to form the 'roman du roi' first used here.
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