A new account of the life & work of the man who cut types for Aldus Manutius, Francesco Griffo da Bologna
Subtitle: told through a collection of fragments and glimpses assembled from a variety of sources, with a leaf from the Aldine edition of Ovid's Heroidum epistolae, set in Griffo's first italic type
Contributors: Heavenly Monkey (Firm); Arjowiggins (Papermaking firm)
Publisher: Heavenly Monkey
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Vancouver, British Columbia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Type designers; Biography; Typographers; Type and type-founding; History
Other titles: Francesco Griffo; Francesco Griffo da Bologna :; Fragments and glimpses
Notes: "A version of this book was published by A Lone Press in 1999, under the title Fragments & glipses : a biography of Francesco Griffo da Bologna."

"Fifty numbered copies of this book have been set in Bembo and printed with a handpress by Rollin Milroy. There are also eight (I-VIII) hors commerce copies. Most copies have been printed on Arches wove papers; a few were printed on Golden Hind laid, & specially bound. Both papers were dampened for printing."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 36