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Product Identifiers
PublisherRochester Medical Institute of Technology, RiT Press
ISBN-101933360569
ISBN-139781933360560
eBay Product ID (ePID)144098889
Product Key Features
Number of Pages292 Pages
Publication NameScythe and the Rabbit : Simon De Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBibliographies & Indexes, Cultural Heritage, Publishing, Graphic Arts / Typography
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaDesign, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorKay Amert
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-015268
ReviewsThis book is about the high art of typography and publishing as it unfolded in Renaissance Europe. It sets the stage for the expansion of the art all over the world. For the true lover of typography, this book fills in all those gaps left behind undiscovered. GRAPHIC-DESIGN.COM
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal686.20944/36109031
SynopsisSimon 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 the first 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..", 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 the first 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..", This book offers offers insightful and informative research about Simon de Colines, one of the greatest typographers and printers of the Renaissance.
LC Classification NumberZ232.C69A44 2012
