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The scythe and the rabbit : Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris / Kay Amert ; edited by Robert Bringhurst.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z232.C69 A44 2012 Way copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amert, Kay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546.
- Colines, Simon de.
- Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533.
- Tory, Geoffroy.
- Estienne, Robert, 1503?-1559.
- Estienne, Robert.
- Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546--Bibliography.
- Estienne family.
- Printing--France--Paris--History--16th century.
- Printing.
- Type and type-founding--France--History--16th century.
- Type and type-founding.
- Early printed books--France--Paris--16th century--Bibliography.
- Early printed books.
- Printers--France--Biography.
- Printers.
- Type designers--France--Biography.
- Type designers.
- France.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)
- Physical Description:
- 288, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Concord, New Hampshire : Printed & bound in the USA by Capital Offset Company ...
- Other Title:
- Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, New York : Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Parisian printing in the early sixteenth century : establishing an international idiom
- Origins of the French old-style : the roman and italic types of Simon de Colines
- Medicine, typography, and Renaissance ideals in early sixteenth-century Paris
- Sculpture under the microscope : a closer look at some sixteenth-century letterforms
- Duet for the design of letters : the work of Simon de Colines and Geofroy Tory
- The humanization of a medieval form : Geofroy Tory's and Simon de Coline's books of hours
- The phenomenon of the gros canon : the birth of roman display type in Renaissance Paris
- The intertwining strengths of Simon de Colines and his stepson Robert Estienne
- The Aldine hypothesis : appraising and reviving early Italian and French printing types.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781933360560
- 1933360569
- OCLC:
- 794973717
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