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Account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century
Account of calligraphy and printing in the sixteenth century
Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
30 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 219-255 pages of plates : facsimiles, portrait ; 19 cm.
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.
"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.