Of the Just Shaping of Letters
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About This Book
Printed in an edition limited to 315 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. Asaf no.70, Warde 126 . The first of the Grolier Club's publications on the Roman alphabet, the work was designed by Bruce Rogers, using his Centaur types. It was printed on English hand-made paper at the Mall Press by Emery Walker and Wilfred Merton at Sussex House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith. The translation of the original Latin edition of 1535 is by R. T. Nichol. The Roman letters have been adapted from Dürer's 1525 original blocks, which were reprinted for the last time in 1604. Daniel Gehnrich is one of the few bookbinders...
Chapters (75)
- OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS
- ALBRECHT DÜRER TO WILIBALD PIRCKHEIMER HIS PATRON AND VERY GOOD FRIEND GREETING:
- OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS
- OF THE LETTER B.
- Another method.
- OF THE LETTER C.
- Another method.
- THE LETTER D.
- Another method.
- THE LETTER E.
- THE LETTER F.
- THE LETTER G.
- THE LETTER H.
- THE LETTER I.
- THE LETTER K.
- THE LETTER L.
- THE LETTER M.
- Another method.
- THE LETTER N.
- THE LETTER O.
- THE LETTER P.
- THE LETTER Q.
- THE LETTER R.
- THE LETTER S.
- Another method.
- THE LETTER T.
- Another method.
- THE LETTER V.
- THE LETTER X.
- THE LETTER Y.
- THE LETTER Z.
- DIRECTIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEXT OR QUADRATE LETTERS
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