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He was the son of a printer, and was brought up to his father's business.
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Epreuve, de deux petits caracteres . Nouvellement graves Et executes dans toutes les parties Typographiques, par Fournier le jeune, Graveur & Fondeur de Caracteres d'imprimerie. Date de l'edition originale: 1757 Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF. Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique. En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles. Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
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He was the son of a printer, and was brought up to his father's business.
After studying drawing under the painter Colson, he practised for some time the art of wood-engraving, and ultimately turned his attention to the engraving and casting of types.
He designed many new characters, and his foundry became celebrated not only in France, but in foreign countries. In 1737 he published his Table des proportions qu'il faut observer entre les caracteres, which was followed by several other technical treatises. In 1758 he assailed the title of Gutenberg to the honour awarded him as inventor of printing, claiming it for Schoffer, in his Dissertation sur Vorigine et les progr'es de Tart de graver en bois. This gave rise to a controversy in which Schopflin and Baer were his opponents. Fournier's contributions to this debate were collected and reprinted under the title of Traites hisloriques et critiques sur Fortgine de Vimprimerie. His principal work was the Manuel typographique, which appeared in 2 vols. 8vo in 1764, the first volume treating of engraving and type-founding, the second of printing, with examples of different alphabets. It was the author's design to complete the work in four volumes, but he did not live to execute it. He died at Paris on the 8th of October 1768.
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Not content with his practical achievements, he sought to stimulate public interest in his art by the production of various works on the subject.