Account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century
By: from dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin, printed and published by him in Antwerp in 1567 ; French and Flemish text in facsimile ; English translation and notes by Ray Nash ; and foreword by Stanley Morison.
Contributors: Nash, Ray, 1905-; Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570.; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Merrymount Press.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Printing -- Early works to 1800; Type and type-founding -- Early works to 1800; Calligraphy -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Account of calligraphy and printing in the sixteenth century
Notes: "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 chapter on writiing and printing was written by Plantin himeself"--P. 30.
"Two hundred and fifty copies"--Verso of half title.