Author: Lommen, Mathieu.
Title: Het boek van het gedrukte boek. Een visuele geschiedenis. [1st edition].
Description: [Amsterdam], Amsterdam University Press / Universiteit van Amsterdam, Bijzondere Collecties & [Tielt], Lanno, [2012]. 463,[1] pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover, d./j. - Dustjacket with light shelfwear.This richly illustrated book brings together works that illustrate the canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. The printed book in all its guises: as a reference work and work of art, as a 'machine à lire' and picture book, and as a prestige book and disposable paperback. It includes work by famous printers of the hand press period - Nicolas Jenson, Aldus Manutius, Christoffel Plantin, the Elzeviers, John Baskerville and Giambattista Bodoni - and by leading modern book designers such as William Morris, El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Robert Massin and Irma Boom. Extra attention is paid to printers' manuals, which provide insight into the printing process, and to calligraphy books and type samples, which place the type in a broader context. Specially illustrated work by architects and artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Maria Sibylla Merian is also included. - Text in Dutch.

Keywords: Bibliography Typography Bibliografie Boekdrukkunst