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Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice

Item:

John Henry Nash Book

Title:

Nicolas Jenson, Printer of Venice: His Famous Type Designs and Some Comment Upon the Printing Types of Earlier Printers by Henry Lewis Bullen, Librarian of the American Typographic Library and Museum at Jersey City.

Author:

Henry Lewis Bullen

Printer:

John Henry Nash

Place of Printing:

San Francisco, CA

Date of Printing:

1926

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Author and Commentators

Henry Lewis Bullen (1857-1938). Librarian of the American Type Founders Company, New Jersey and author.

Nicolas Jenson (1420-1480). Frenchman who set-up a printing business in Venice. One of the most respected early printers.

The Book

#184 of 207. Includes an original leaf from Plutarch’s Vitae Parallelae Illustrium Virorum, Volume 2, printed by Nicolas Jenson in 1478.

Contents

Discusses Nicolas Jenson’s life, early printing, and how types were made. It also discusses William Morris reviving interest in Jenson’s Roman type as well as Jenson’s influence on Emery Walker, Cobden-Sanderson, Bruce Rogers and John Henry Nash.