Author: JENSON, NICOLAS.
Title: The Last Will and Testament of The Late Nicolas Jenson, Printer, Who Departed this Life at the City of Venice in the Month of September, A. D. 1480.
Description: Limited Edition; Med. 4to; pp. 15; bound in original beige embossed cloth title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, dustjacket a little worn and marked, with the bookplate of Benjamin N. Fryer (book designer and writer) on the front endpaper (artists Phillip M. Litchfield), light foxing throughout, good copy. Chicago; Newberry Library; 1928. The Will after four hundred and forty years turned from Latin into the English tongue by pierce Butler at the Newberry Library in Chicago. This book is Ludlow-set in a trial font of sixteen point Nicolas Jenson, a new type designed by Ernst Detterer, interpreting as faithfully as possible the original roman type of Jenson, and printed in a limited edition on rives paper by the Ludlow Typography Company of Chicago in the month of November, 1928.

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