Fournier (Pierre-Simon) Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 (all called for), engraved frontispieces by Fessard after De Seve and Gravelot, titles with ornamental borders, 16 folding engraved plates, 5 folding sheets of music printed on both sides including one in red & black, occasional foxing, later boards, rubbed, and scuffed, vol.1 with joints worn and spine chipped, [Updike, Printing Types I, p.260], 8vo, Paris, for the author, Barbou, 1764-66.

⁂ Fournier's most important work, envisaged as four volumes but on his death only these two had been completed (the second volume was originally intended to be the fourth). The first volume discusses typefounding and punchcutting with the folding plates illustrating the tools then used in those processes; the second volume is basically a type specimen book with 303 full page specimens (including 101 ancient and modern alphabets and five folding engraved plates of music). "The most useful information about type and typefounding which could be got together when he wrote, and the first successful endeavour to place the measurements of types on a rational basis." Updike.