Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres (page 1/2)

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Some borders and symbols scanned from Volume two of Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres by Fournier the younger, Paris, 1766. My edition is a fac simile.

Title: Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres

Author: Fournier, Le Jeune.

City: Paris

Date: 1766

Total items: 4

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Quaint Pointy Hands And Things]

Quaint Pointy Hands And Things

Some 18th century printed signs of direction, including pointing hands (called an index today), and also rings pieced by arrows, from page 133. [more...]

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[picture: 132.---Diverses: Les Planètes.]

132.—Diverses: Les Planètes.

This page shows various alchemical or astrological symbols together with their (French) names, set in a border. [more...]

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[picture: 133.---Figures.]

133.—Figures.

Figures
Pour les Missels. [i.e. for prayer-books and religious music] [more...]

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[picture: Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels]

Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels

This is an 18th century French border used to surround a page; it is not modern, slick and perfect. For example, one part of the border near the top left corner is actually upside down. But its [...]whole page. [more...]

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Some borders and symbols scanned from Volume two of Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres by Fournier the younger, Paris, 1766. My edition is a fac simile.


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