Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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Book production - Typefounding and typography

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André Jammes & Isabelle Jammes, Collection de spécimens de caractères, 1517-2004, Paris, Librairie Paul Jammes / Editions des Cendres, 2006


André Jammes, L'imprimerie polytype : une officine expérimentale et clandestine au service du duc d'Orléans 1783-1787, [Paris], Éditions des Cendres, 2012


Vannoccio Biringucci, Of typecasting in the sixteenth century : being a description of the art of typecasting [selection from "De la pirotechnia" translated into English by Martha Teach Gnudi & Cyril Stanley Smith], [New Haven], Columbia Club, 1941


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