Printing types, their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals (1922)
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 · Cambridge : Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 482
Books I, II, and III, are composed in a beauti-ful attenuated roman letter, in a line of capitals and two linesof lower case. The title-page is, like those of many Estiennetitles, badly managed and unattractive, largely because ofthe sprawling Estienne device. Yet the book is much moreworkmanlike,… … FRENCH TYPES: 1500-1800 197 sometimes in roman. In his nine-volume edition of CicerosOpera^ published in 1543, he first makes use of the fine italicwhich he had cut in imitation of the Aldine character. In the Kings Library at the British Museum, JeanRuels De Natura Stirpium Libri Tres is exhibited…
Typography · Printing -- History · Printing
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