CARACTÈRE NOËL
Revue Mensuelle des Industries Graphiques
Emanuel and François Ollive [Directors]
Emanuel and François Ollive [Directors]: CARACTÈRE NOËL [Revue Mensuelle des Industries Graphiques]. Paris: Compagnie Française d`Editions [Publié par la Fédération Française des Syndicats Patronnaux de l`Imprimerie et des Industries Graphiques], Nº 13 hors serie, December 1953. Original edition. Text in French. Printed paper covered boards. Printing samples gathered for this special Noël volume. Elaborate graphic design and printing production throughout. Multiple paper stocks and printing and finishing effects. Boards lightly edgeworn. First signature sprung. One four-page signature loose and laid in, but a very good copy.
9.75 x 12.5 hardcover collection of articles and inserts presenting the state of the art in French commercial printing, highly reminescent of Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Includes bound-in menus, dust jackets, wine labels, letterhead, and all kinds of other brilliantly designed and produced ephemera.
Maximilien Vox was the guiding force behind this prestigious French Typographic Annual whose purpose was to reunite disparate French printing concerns after World War II. Vox envisioned a reestablishment of the parity between commercial printing and typesetting and the fine book publishing that characterized French Book Arts before the War.
Abridged Contents
- Nouvel Age de la Typographie: Charles Peignot.
- Alfred LaTour, Peintre Typographie: Henri Jonquières.
- Comme Dirait Bodoni . . . : Jacques Haumont.
- Un Précurseur: G. De Mendoza (1895–1944): André R. Laurent.
- Pitié Pour les Classiqes: François Martin Salvat.
- A L’Ouest, De Nouveau: Chronique De La 3e Dimension.
- Deux Conférences Recéntes: Maximilien Vox.
- On Demande Une Terminologie: Victor-Paul Victor-Michel.
- Inventaire de la Typographie Pure
- Inventaire de La Typographie Pure Recensement: Graphicus ou Essai de palette Typographique.
- Also includes many vintage advertisements for printers and print-related services, including a Full-page Nord poster by A. M. Cassandre printed in gorgeous gravure.
Includes work by Laure Albin Guillot, Deberny et Peignot, Roger Bezombes, Augustea Nebiolo, Lucien Hervé, Raoul Dfy, André Bloc, J. L. Craven, Erich Hartmann, Roger Excoffen, Société Nebiolo, Aldo Novarese, Gérard Blanchard, Robert Blanchet, Cluseau-Lanauve, Crous-Vidal, Jean-Louis Des Hayes, Jacques Devillers, Maurice Frédéric, Jean Garcia, Jacques Haumont, Jacques Honnorat, Marcel Jacno, Henri Jonquières, René-H. Munsch, Marc.-A. Pampuzac, Rémy Peignot, Réné Ponot, Pierre Robbes, François Salvat, Maximilien Vox, and many other French Designers, Typographers and Production personnel.
A total of 74 different printing houses contributed material to this volume, as well as 17 different paper manufacturers. When you hear people say “they don’t make them like this anymore,” they could be talking about this oversized volume.