The scythe and the rabbit : Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris / by Amert, Kay

Table of 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.…”
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Joseph Fauchet, minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic near the United States : to Mr. Randolph secretary of state of the United States.

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