Account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589
Corporate Authors:	Merrymount Press, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors:	Nash, Ray, 1905-1982, Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570
Format:	Book
Language:	English French Dutch
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1940
Subjects:	Printing > Early works to 1800. Type and type-founding > Early works to 1800. Calligraphy > Early works to 1800. Bookplates > Specimens. Printing. Type and type-founding. Early works.

Description
Item Description:	"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. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection by The Cushing Library.
Physical Description:	30 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 219-255 pages of plates : facsimiles, portrait ; 19 cm.