The scythe and the rabbit
Subtitle: Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris
By: written by Kay Amert ; edited by Robert Bringhurst
Contributors: Bringhurst, Robert
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press; Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781933360560
Subjects: Bibliography; Early printed books; Type and type-founding; Printing; Printers; Type designers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parisian printing in the early sixteenth century : establishing an international idiom; title: Origins of the French old-style : the roman and italic types of Simon de Colines; title: Medicine, typography, and Renaissance ideals in early sixteenth-century Paris; title: Sculpture under the microscope : a closer look at some sixteenth-century letterforms; title: Duet for the design of letters : the work of Simon de Colines and Geofroy Tory; title: The humanization of a medieval form : Geofroy Tory's and Simon de Coline's books of hours; title: The phenomenon of the gros canon : the birth of roman display type in Renaissance Paris; title: The intertwining strengths of Simon de Colines and his stepson Robert Estienne; title: The Aldine hypothesis : appraising and reviving early Italian and French printing types.