FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES

by Hendik D. L. Vervliet

A$150 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

A Conspectus. Pp. 472, text illustrations and examples, bibliography, index; demy 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Bibliographical Society/ Printing Historical Society/Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2010. First edition. *A majority of today's text types, either Roman, Italic, Greek or Hebrew, derive directly or indirectly from type designs conceived or perfected in sixteenth-century France. Item #106612

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