Typographic firsts adventures in early printing
How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg is credited with printing the first...
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Oxford :
Bodleian Library,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Prototypographer
- Punch, strike, justify, cast
- Saint Catherine and the pirates
- Against all odds
- From blockbooks to pliny
- Printed polychromy
- Printed illuminations
- Alchemy and antimony
- 'Here begynneth a litl boke'
- Printed polyphony
- Atlas printed
- Goody two-shoes and the fabulist.
