Research Catalog

Title

The scythe and the rabbit : Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris / Kay Amert ; edited by Robert Bringhurst.

Author

Amert, Kay.

Publication

Rochester, New York : Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Bringhurst, Robert

Description

288 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546
• Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546 > Bibliography
• Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533
• Estienne family
• Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533
• Colines, Simon de, d. 1546 > Bibliography
• Colines, Simon de, d. 1546
• Printing > Paris > History > 16th century
• Type and type-founding > France > History > 16th century
• Early printed books > Paris > 16th century > Bibliography
• Printers > France > Biography
• Type designers > France > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Parisian printing in the early sixteenth century : establishing an international idiom -- Origins of the French old-style : the roman and italic types of Simon de Colines -- Medicine, typography, and Renaissance ideals in early sixteenth-century Paris -- Sculpture under the microscope : a closer look at some sixteenth-century letterforms -- Duet for the design of letters : the work of Simon de Colines and Geofroy Tory -- The humanization of a medieval form : Geofroy Tory's and Simon de Coline's books of hours -- The phenomenon of the gros canon : the birth of roman display type in Renaissance Paris -- The intertwining strengths of Simon de Colines and his stepson Robert Estienne -- The Aldine hypothesis : appraising and reviving early Italian and French printing types.

ISBN

• 9781933360560 (alk. paper)
• 1933360569 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012015268

OCLC

• 794973717
• SCSB-11325375

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library