Bibliorum Sacrorum Vulgatae Versionis Editio.
Holy Bible
Paris: François-Ambroise Didot. 1785.
Description:
Two volumes. Large 4to. 310x230mm. pp. ix, [1], 596; [4], 548. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt, turn ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pale blue silk ribbon in each volume. Slight bumping to bottom edges and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spines but otherwise a lovely set in very good condition and internally excellent save for a little foxing in places and some minor staining in volume two. Beautifully printed in two columns by François-Ambroise Didot, this Bible is part of the "Collection des auteurs classiques François et Latins" published by command of Louis XVI as works suitable for the education of the Dauphin. In fact, this is the only work in Latin as the project was largely intended as a vehicle for the promotion of the classics of French literature including works by Racine, Voltaire, Corneille, Rousseau, Molière, La Fontaine and La Rochefoucauld. The total set runs to thirty two volumes.
François-Ambroise Didot was the second generation of the great printing dynasty, inventing a new printing press and adapting the Fournier point system for typefaces. The Didot point is now the European standard typographical measure.
Description:
Two volumes. Large 4to. 310x230mm. pp. ix, [1], 596; [4], 548. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt, turn ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pale blue silk ribbon in each volume. Slight bumping to bottom edges and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spines but otherwise a lovely set in very good condition and internally excellent save for a little foxing in places and some minor staining in volume two. Beautifully printed in two columns by François-Ambroise Didot, this Bible is part of the "Collection des auteurs classiques François et Latins" published by command of Louis XVI as works suitable for the education of the Dauphin. In fact, this is the only work in Latin as the project was largely intended as a vehicle for the promotion of the classics of French literature including works by Racine, Voltaire, Corneille, Rousseau, Molière, La Fontaine and La Rochefoucauld. The total set runs to thirty two volumes.
François-Ambroise Didot was the second generation of the great printing dynasty, inventing a new printing press and adapting the Fournier point system for typefaces. The Didot point is now the European standard typographical measure.