PEREGRINATIONS OF FRENCH TYPES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: PRINTING OF ROBERT BELLAMARINE'S DISPUTATIONES IN SOUTHERN GERMANY

Argetsinger, Mark

Verlag: The Press of Robert LoMascolo, Union Springs, NY, 2016

Beschreibung

small folio. quarter vellum, decorated paper covered boards. (xiv), 36 (6) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies and contains two original leaves (4 pages) printed in 1591 by David Sartorius in Ingolstadt of his Disputationes. A fine copy. Retired Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Professor Herbert H. Johnson has written the foreword as well as provided the leaves from an incomplete volume in his impressive collection of rare books. The scholarly text, written by noted type historian and book designer Mark Argetsinger, explores how the types of French masters such as Claude Garamond came to be used in Sartorius printing house in southern Germany. The peregrinations of early French types is a subject that deserves more study, and this book will be of interest to all those concerned with the history of the book, history of typography, descriptive bibliography, and printing of the Counter-Reformation. quarter vellum, decorated paper covered boards. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 129183

Bibliografische Details

Titel: PEREGRINATIONS OF FRENCH TYPES IN THE ...

Verlag: The Press of Robert LoMascolo, Union Springs, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Press of Robert Lomascolo