Original leaves illustrating evolution of roman types | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Specimens

Physical Description:[2] sets in portfolios ([11] mounted leaves in each set) ; 49 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:720374065

Notes:

Title from front cover of portfolio

Collected and annotated by Otto F. Ege

Five leaves in English, four in Latin, one each in Spanish and Italian

No two sets are identical; each set contains leaves from eleven separate works

Label on verso of front cover of portfolio identifies printer, date, and details of types: [1] Manuscript, 1470, prototype for fine roman fonts. [2] Jenson, 1475, the most perfect roman type ever cut. [3]. Aldus, 1513, Italic type. [4]Estienne, 1570, Garamond type. [5] Ibarra, 1753, "The finest roman type of the 18th century." [6] Baskerville, 1763, the types of England's first fine printer. [7] Bodoni, 1793, the famous "classic" roman type. [8] Chiswick, 1901, Morris' "golden type." [9] Cobden-Sanderson, 1903, Doves type. [10] Bertiere e Vanzetti, 1922, Orcutt's humanistic type. [11] Oxford Press, 1935, Rogers' Centaur type

Item [1] is a manuscript. Items [2-6] in both sets consist of text, respectively, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the philosophers; Niccolò Perotti, Cornucopiae; Conciones sive orationes ex Graecis Latinisque historicis excerptae; Juan Wendlingen, Elementos de la aritmética y geometría práctica; 2nd Chronicles XXIII-XXV, and Zechariah II-VII. Item [7] in the 1st set is from The seasons of James Thomson; item [7] in the 2nd set is from Disgrazie di Donna Urania of Benvenut Robbio, conte di San Rafaele. Item [8] is from the Icelandic saga Grettir the Strong. Item [9]. Isaiah XLVI-XLVIII and Hosea X-XII. Item [10] has identifical text from Dante's Rime in both sets . Item [11]. Psalms LXXXIII-LXXXVIII and Ecclesiastes XIV-XVII

Item [1] is lacking in both sets