Adventure and Art: The First Hundred Years of Printing

by Michael Joseph and Paul Needham

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This text is a catalogue of the Rutgers University exhibition looking at books published during the first century of printing. It begins with Gutenberg's famous 42-line Bible, and ends with the lavishly illustrated deluxe editions of the mid-16th century. Also featured are specimens of Golden Age French typograhpy. There are individual photographs of each work, including colour photographs of the hand-coloured herbal woodcuts and illuminations of 15th-century editions of ""Josephus"" and ""Antoninus"".
  • ISBN13 9780813527277
  • Publish Date 14 June 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rutgers University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Language English