Author: McCrillis, John O. C.
Title: Printer's Abecedarium.
Description: Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1974). (1974). - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative green wraps. The extremities are rubbed & the wraps are lightly bumped. Unpaginated. 27 full-page illustrations [26 decorative letters of the alphabet & an ampersand]. Near fine.

Edited by Susan C. McCrillis.

In his abecedarium, John McCrillis has created his own pantheon of great printers, from Aldus Mantius to Gunther Zainer, with a brief essay on each. His Gothic letters of the alphabet have been freely adapted from the illuminated initials in the Yale Library's copy of the Catholicon. Very good .

Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; ALPHABET BOOKS; ABECEDARIUMS; JOHN O. C. MCCRILLIS; PRINTING; PRINTERS; PRINTER'S ABECEDARIUM.

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