Authors:
Text by Christelle Kirchstetter, Text by Thomas Huot-Marchand, Edited by Jérôme Knebusch
Publishers:
PRESSES DU REEL
Date of Publication:
2021-03-16
Availability:
Unavailable, the publisher indicates the product is out of stock
Pages:
496
The book brings together researchers in the field of typography,
paleography and book history, with emphasis on characters
and letter forms. The relatively little-studied period – after Gutenberg
and before the stabilization of Jenson's model – extends from the first traces of
humanistic tendencies to the 'pure' Romans, passing through numerous cases of
uncertain designs, voluntary hybridizations and proto or archaic forms of the
Roman. In 1459 in Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer printed the
Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Guillaume Durand, using a character
typographic (known today as ‹Durandus›) which did not resemble
no other previous character. From here we can follow a great variety
of developments, partly relating to the travels of the first printers of the
Rhine region towards Italy and France. By extension, the movement of
private presses initiated by William Morris and Emery Walker at the end of the 19th century
century in England, revived some of these characters before they
fall back into oblivion.
