The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris - Softcover

Amert, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933360569 ISBN 13: 9781933360560

Publisher: RIT Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book offers offers insightful and informative research about Simon de Colines, one of the greatest typographers and printers of the Renaissance. Simon de Colines was one of the greatest typographers, printers and publishers of the Renaissance. He has nevertheless been unfairly neglected. Apart from a pair of scholarly bibliographies, published a century apart, this is thefirst book-length study of his work. As Robert Bringhurst writes in his introduction to this volume, "Colines as much as anyone built the semiotic structure of the book as we now know it, with its chapter headings and subheads,page numbers and running heads, tables of contents, indices, and source notes. He also cut lucid and beautiful type at a crucial moment: when the Latin and Greek alphabets were still engaged in their historic metamorphosis from manuscript to metal.."

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About the Author

Kay Amert was a master typographer, a master printer, and a meticulous, insightful typographic historian, particularly knowledgeable in the field of French Renaissance printing and publishing. She was the director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa. She died in 2008, leaving her work unfinished. Her published and unpublished writings on de Colines have been carefully edited by Robert Bringhurst.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIT Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933360569
• ISBN 13: 9781933360560
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292