Lot 205
Stencilled colour printing--Griffié, E. et Chaffary, P.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Livre contenant des antiennes pour tierces des divers tems de l'année, des messes de solemnités, des Benedicamus [&c.]. Ville-moustausson, 1802, large folio (47.5 x 31cm.), one leaf, title-page and text stencilled in red, blue, black and gold, numerous two-line initials in colour, many with coloured borders, musical staves ruled in MS, panelled mottled calf, rubbed, corners soft, some margins thumbed, a little light soiling
Footnote
Note: Stencils were used, in the Low Countries and the South of France, for printing service-books in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These were usually produced for a single church of abbey, in limited numbers, requiring minimal mechanisation, in the scriptorium. The implication of the title of this work however is that it was intended for wider publication but at the same time it is intended to resemble a manuscript. The title has capitals in red and blue in two sizes with three typographic ornaments in red. The first chant, for Jan. 1st, has eight lines of MS stave with stencilled text and music and two four-line initials in red with red & blue ornamental borders. As the work proceeds different borders appear and yellow is added to the intitials. The contents follow the church's year, but there is also a Messe Republicaine, Messe Imperiale and the work finishes with Lame[n]tationes Jeremiae. No copy has been traced.