An account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century
By: from dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin ; printed and published by him at Antwerp, in 1567 ; French and Flemish text in facsimile, English translation and notes by Ray Nash and foreword by Stanley Morison.
Contributors: Nash, Ray, 1905-1982; Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.; Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts.; Merrymount Press.
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.; Printing -- History; Type and type-founding; Penmanship
Other titles: An account of calligraphy and printing in the sixteenth century; Calligraphy and printing
Notes: Includes facsim. of original t.p., with imprint: A Anvers: De l'imprimerie de Christophe Plantin, 1567.

Half title: Calligraphy & printing.

"Two hundred and fifty copies have been printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, in January 1940, as the first publication of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Originally published as Dialogue 9 of: La première, et la seconde partie des dialogues françois, pour les jeunes enfans = Het eerste en de tweede deel van de françoische t'samensprekinghen.