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An account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century from dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin, printed and published by him at Antwerp, in 1567.

Title: An account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century from dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin, printed and published by him at Antwerp, in 1567. French and Flemish text in facsimile, English translation and notes by Ray Nash and foreword by Stanley Morison.
Author: Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589
Publication: Cambridge, Mass., Department of printing and graphic arts, Harvard college library, 1940.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Restricted use	*KP (Merrymount) (Plantin, C. Account of calligraphy)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Restricted use	*KP (Harvard) (Plantin, C. Account of calligraphy)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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vii, 30 p., 1 l., facsim.: [217]-255 p. front. (port.); 18.5 cm.

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"Two hundred and fifty copies have been printed by D.B. Updike, the Merrymount press, Boston, in January 1940, as the first publication of the Department of printing and graphic arts, in the Harvard college library, Cambridge, Massachusetts."
"An interesting description of the art of writing. But it is even more important as the earliest account of the working of the printing press."--Foreword.
"Max Rooses, the biographer of Plantin, while stating that Grevin was general author of the 'Dialogues' and that the Flemish translation was by Pierre Kerkhovius and Corneille Bomberghe, believes that the chapter on writing and printing was written by Plantin himself. M. Sabbe in 'Histoire du livre et de l'imprimerie en Belgique' (1925) reprints part of this chapter in French. The same portion appeared as a separate pamphlet under the titles 'L'imprimerie' and 'De druckerye' (Amsterdam, 1925)"--Notes, p. 30.
Original t.-p. reads: La premiere, et la seconde partie des Dialogves francois povr les ievnes enfans. Het eerste en de tvveede deel van de françosche t'samensprekinghen, ouergheset in de nederduytschespraeke. A Anvers. De l'imprimerie de Christophle Plantin. M. D. LXVII. Avec privilege.

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*KP (Harvard) (Plantin, C. Account of calligraphy)

LCCN

40005278

OCLC

2482416

Author

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589.

Title

An account of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century from dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin, printed and published by him at Antwerp, in 1567. French and Flemish text in facsimile, English translation and notes by Ray Nash and foreword by Stanley Morison.

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Cambridge, Mass., Department of printing and graphic arts, Harvard college library, 1940.

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Grévin, Jacques, 1538?-1570.

Bomberghe, Corneille de. Translator

Kerkhovius, Pierre. Translator

Nash, Ray, 1905-

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.

Harvard universuty. Library. Department of printing and graphic arts.

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*KP (Harvard) (Plantin, C. Account of calligraphy)

*KP (Merrymount) (Plantin, C. Account of calligraphy)

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