L'art d'écrire réduit à des démonstrations vraies et faciles, avec des explications claires, pour le dictionnaire des arts / par Paillasson, expert écrivain, juré. First edition.
Paris: circa 1760. Portfolio wrapped with sheets en reliure d' attente advertising "Paris dans sa Splendeur." 25.5 x 39.5cm. 16pp. followed by 16 engraved plates. Wormhole in the right margin. ... Waterstain on 4 plates...Publié dans l' Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné... de Diderot et d'Alembert, tome II des planches (1763). Voir Enccre [archive]. Cat. Jammes n° 77, Becker 1997 p. XII et n° 152, Cat. Hutton n° 67, Morison 1962 n° 60 avec 1 pl. repr....OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
28217745......
Charles Paillasson's ‘L'Art d'Ecrire’ or ‘The Art of Writing’, created in collaboration with the famed French engraver Augustin de Saint-Aubin, in the C18th. All individually framed. Charles Paillasson's celebrated handwriting manual ‘L'Art d'Ecrire’, was originally published in 1763 as part of Diderot and D'Alembert's ‘Encyclopédie’......
Paillasson was born in 1718, son of the master writer Jean-Jacques Paillasson, who died in 1754. Anxious to enhance the prestige of calligraphy in France, he was part of several Parisian academics supporting this cause and was among those who offered, in 1763 and 1767, gifts in calligraphy to Louis XV. By 1776 he was a writer in the king's cabinet, and in 1780 he was appointed First Secretary. Paillasson died in 1789....
From the collection of Frederick Ruffner (1926-2014), the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Item #51-7185
Price: $1,500.00