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The printed book, its history, illustration, and adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time (1887)

Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 229

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the younger Moreau andhis contemporaries of the older regime, rallied to thenew study, forming a school of illustrators and vignet-tists with which the publishers could resolutely ad-vance. England followed suit with Flaxman, West,Fuseli, Barry, and a crowd of others. Among the)( publishers the… … THE DIDOT FAMILY. 219 When Napoleon crowned himselfemperor of the French,the elders of the family had already brought about anumber of perfections and discoveries in their pro-fession b} which their workshops had profited. Fran-cois Ambroise, who died in the year of the Empire, hadgiven an exact…

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