DUPIN (Charles, baron)

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DUPIN (Charles, baron)
Report of the central jury on the products of French industry exhibited in 1834. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1836. 3 volumes in-8, of 2 ff., LVI and 420 pp.; 2 ff., LXXVI and 318 pp.; 2 ff, 511 pp. and 5 ff.: long-grained red morocco, framed with two gilt filets and a cold castor, spandrel irons and garlands delimiting a central panel, in the center figure LO crowned in a wreath of laurel and oak branches, smooth spine decorated with small irons and gilt filets, inner castor, blue lining and tabis guards, gilt edges (period binding). Original edition. Report drawn up by the politician and economist Charles Dupin (1784-1873), in charge of the vice-presidency of the central jury of the eighth edition of the Public Exhibition of the Products of French Industry, which took place in 1834 in Paris, place de la Concorde (the first edition was organised in 1797 on the Champ-de-Mars). The first volume provides an important historical introduction to the progress made by national industry in various fields since the French Revolution: food arts, sanitary arts, cloakroom arts, housing arts, locomotive arts, sensory arts, intellectual arts and mathematical arts. The other two volumes contain more or less detailed entries on the manufacturers and artists awarded prizes in their respective fields, which are listed in an alphabetical list at the beginning of Volume II (LXXVI pages). It should be noted that there are no gold medals in the field of bookbinding: Simier, Koehler, Duplanil and Giroux won only silver medals, and bronze was awarded to Muller, Lesné and Jacotier, the latter for the discovery of a process for decalking engravings or lithographs applied to bookbinding. As for the field of typography, the Firmin-Didots, who brought together all the elements of superiority, still won the prize and were once again awarded the gold medal, which has not left their house since the first exhibition in 1797. Very beautiful copy printed on wove paper, nicely bound
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