Venetian Printing Nicolas Jenson Rise by Lowry Martin (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to (31.5 cm), 110 pp. Printed wrappers with flaps (wrappers slightly rubbed at extremities and dusted). Text in both English and Danish. The volume includes two essays: "Nicolas Jenson and the Rise of the Roman Letterform" by Martin Lowry and "Nicolaus Ienson Gallicus" by George Abrams. These essays, "from slightly differing viewpoints, focus on Nicolas Jenson as a central figure in the history of book publishing during the Renaissance, as well as in the history of letter-forms right down to the present day" (from an introduction by Poul Steen Larsen).

Herning : Poul Kristensen, 1989. Folio, publisher's stiff wrappers with gilt lettering, gilt to spine (slight wear), 104, [8] pp., with 8 coloured plates; three light water marks to front free endpaper, otherwise internally very clean, a good copy. One of 850 copies.Text in English and Danish. The two essays, from slightly differing viewpoints, both focus on Nicolas Jenson as a central figure in the history of book publishing during the Renaissance, as well as in the history of letterforms right down to the present day.

Poul Kristensen, Herning 1989. 4°. 104 pages. With colour plates. Bound untrimmed in fine red half-morocco binding with gilt ornamentation and gilt top-edge. Spine sunned. * One of 135 numbered copies, signed by George Abrams, and bound by Ole Olsen.

Poul Kristensen, Herning 1989. 4°. 104 pages. With colour plates. Bound untrimmed in fine red half-morocco binding with gilt ornamentation and gilt top-edge. Spine slightly sunned. * One of 135 numbered copies, (this however, unnumbered), signed by George Abrams, and bound by Ole Olsen.