Featured on PDR in the collection Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album (1843)
This “alphabet album”, a beautiful book of calligraphy and typographic engraving, was assembled by Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre (1791–1869), a paleographer, calligrapher, and miniaturist painter born in Avignon who later taught the sons of King Louis-Philippe I (1773–1850) how to form their letters.
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1843
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Alphabet-album; collection de soixante feuilles d'alphabets historiés et fleuronnés, tirés des principales bibliothèques de l'Europe
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