TYPE AND TYPE-FOUNDING *Q.117.2
Plantin, Christophe, 1514-1589, supposed author. An ac- count of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century ...
1940. (Card 2) the Department of printing and graphic arts, in the Harvard college library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.”
“An interesting description of the art of writing. But it is even more important as the earliest account of the working of the printing press.” — Foreword.
“Max Rooses, the biographer of Plantin, while stating that Grevin was general author of the ‘Dialogues’ and that the Flemish translation was by Pierre Kerkhovius and Corneille Bomberghe, believes that the chapter on writing and printing was written by Plantin himself. M. Sabbe in ‘Histoire du livre et de l’imprimerie en Belgique’ (1925) reprints part of this chapter in French. The same portion appeared as a separate
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