L' inventaire de la Fonderie Le Bé, selon la transcription de Jean Pierre Fournier
By: Stanley Morison.
Contributors: Fournier, Jean Pierre, 1707-1784.; Le Bé, Guillaume, ca. 1565-1645.
Series: Documents typographiques français ;; 1
Publisher: André Jammes
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Fonderie Le Bé.; Type and type-founding -- France -- History.; Typefounding matrices -- France -- Catalogs.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 30.
Stanley Morrison's essay (with caption title: The inventory of the Le Bé Foundry) is in English (p. 7-17). The transcription of the inventory (ms. in Archives nationales, Minutier central des notaires, étude LXV; L. 324) is in French (p. 18-28)
Fournier's priced inventory was made in connection with his purchase of the Le Bé firm in 1730. It is, however, essentially a transcript of an inventory made by Guillaume Le Bé II at the death of the firm's founder Guillaume Le Bé in 1598. Cf. p. 11.