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KRIMPEN, J. van - Clement & The Printers. Lutetia Roman and Italic designed by J. van Krimpen.

 1549501777,
Haarlem, Typefoundry Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, [1930]. 42 x 28 cm. One leaf, printed on one side only. Set from the Lutetia in various forms and printed in red and black. Folded. Fine. This type specimen was intended as an appendix to the typographical magazine The Fleuron, hence the systematic folds. A decorative leaf, set from various corps of the Lutetia Roman and italic in a beautiful design. The text is a longer fragment from the novel The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade (1861), which is about the adventures of the fifteenth century man Gerard Eliassoen from the Dutch Tergou (Gouda) - the father of Erasmus, as it turns out. Having become a monk under the name Clement and a skilled book illuminator, he meets in this fragment two men, Sweynheim and Pannartz, who are transporting a printing press on a cart. Reade's novel is quite educational, as this also shows, because Sweynheim and Pannartz happened to be the very first printers in Italy. And for the good Clement they are willing to print a sheet of Augustine's text. Undoubtedly, Jan van Krimpen - himself a Gouwenaar - selected this text himself for his type specimen, and what a studious beauty it is. From the collection of Huib van Krimpen.
EUR 75.00 [Appr.: US$ 81.4 | £UK 64 | JP¥ 12808] Book number 279433

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