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Soft Cover, quartos, 208pp. In English. A reprinted translation of the 1529 classic of typography from one of the French Renaissance masters. Includes his mathematical and humanistic, aesthetic principles for the ideal Roman alphabet, as well as thirteen additional alphabets, block ornamental, fraktur, Greek, Hebrew and other typefaces as well as suggestions for the making of monograms. A classic of the history of printing. Condition: Good, with two small areas of delamination and one bent corner. Contents are clean and slightly toned. Ransom, "Rogers" checklist, No. 17, p. 402--the 1927 edition, reproduced was designed by Bruce Rogers.
Ref: BIBL 8408
$35.00