Hatin, 51 ; Sgard, Dictionnaire des journaux, II, n\u00b0 674 ; see Anatomie de la couleur, BnF, 1996, p. 100 et suivantes.<\/i><\/p>\n
First series, complete with all its engravings of this very rare remarkable scientific 18th century journal, illustrated with engravings printed in colours.<\/span><\/p>\n Founded and directed by the painter and engraver Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty (1716-1785), the color printing process is largely bases on the colour printing as invented by Jacob Christoph Le Blon. Other than extracts of ‘old’ journals or magazines, this publication also contains modern contributions of scientific and literary works published more or less the same year. Complete with its 13 plates of which 12 are printed in colours. Most of the plates are of interest to natural history or anatomy; they depict cats, chameleon, crocodile, tarantula, humming-bird, a cut through the brain, and others. Two plates are of American interest: maps of New England and of Louisiana. The plate printed in outline in red are dancing instructions, while the plate printed black depicts coins. “Gautier Dagoty acquiert en 1776 le privil\u00e8ge d’un Journal d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Monsieur, et lance le premier num\u00e9ro en septembre 1776, avec une d\u00e9dicace sign\u00e9e \u00ab par la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9, G**, d’A**, D**, S**, M**<\/i> \u00bb (Gautier d’Agoty, Dessinateur de Sa Majest\u00e9 ?). Il s’agissait apparemment de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 familiale fond\u00e9e par Dagoty en 1746 pour exploiter le proc\u00e9d\u00e9 de reproduction grav\u00e9e en couleur qu’il avait mis au point (…) et qui avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 la base du privil\u00e8ge des Observations sur l’histoire naturelle. Comme le dit le titre d\u00e9velopp\u00e9, le Journal de Monsieur donnera lui aussi une place importante aux planches en couleurs. Toutefois, Dagoty semble avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 plus soucieux d’exploiter son privil\u00e8ge que de faire vivre son journal ; au bout d’un an, il cherche \u00e0 le revendre. Les M\u00e9moires secrets d\u00e9clarent, le 12 septembre 1778 : \u00ab On avait commenc\u00e9 un Journal de Monsieur. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 interrompu un an et repara\u00eetra au 1.10 sous les auspices de Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente d’Ormoy \u00bb. Toutefois, Mme Chaumet, pr\u00e9sidente d’Ormoy et romanci\u00e8re en faveur, ne r\u00e9ussit gu\u00e8re \u00e0 \u00e9tendre le public du journal ; en 1781, elle dut le vendre \u00e0 Royou, pour la somme de 4000 \u00a3 si l’on en croit les M\u00e9moires secrets (2 nov. 1782)”. Cf. Abderrahman Moalla, in Sgard, op. cit., p. 611).<\/p>\n Fine copy, uncut; some wear to original boards with spines consolidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3 parts in 12 volumes, 12mo (185 x 110 mm), each in two volumes with individual pagination (‘ouvrages anciens’ and ‘ouvrages modernes’): 144 pp., 1 engraved folding map printed in colours, 120pp. for volume I; pp. 145-276, 1 engraved folding map printed in colours, pp. 121-252 for volume II; pp. 277-396, 1 engraved plate printed in colours, pp. 253-396 for volume III; pp. 397-516, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, pp. 397-516 for volume IV; 120 pp., 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, 130 pp., 1 nn.l. for volume V; pp. 121-240, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, 1 engraved folding plate printed in red in ouline, pp. 133-252 for volume VI; pp. 241-360, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, pp. 253-372 for volume VII; pp. 361-480, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, pp. 373-493 for volume VIII; 120 pp., 1 engraved folding plate in black and white, 120 pp. for volume IX; pp. 121-240, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, pp. 121-240 for volume X; pp. 241-360, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours, pp. 241-360 for volume XI; pp. 361-480, pp. 361-480, 1 engraved folding plate printed in colours for volume XII. Contemporary boards, modern blue board boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[540],"product_tag":[1272,1362,1274],"class_list":{"0":"post-74663","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-history","7":"product_tag-anatomy","8":"product_tag-north-america","9":"product_tag-physiology","10":"pa_auteur-gautier-dagoty-jacques-fabien-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"outofstock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Jacques Fabien GAUTIER D'AGOTY","chapeau":"Illustrated with 13 plates of which 12 are printed in colours after Gautier d'Agoty's printing process","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Demonville, 1776","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n