Francesco Griffo da Bologna | Fragments and Glimpses; A new account of the life & work of the man who cut types for Aldus Manutius, Francesco Griffo da Bologna, told through a collection of fragments and glimpses assembled from a variety of sources, with a leaf from the Aldine edition of Ovid’s Heroidvm Epistolae set in Griffo’s first italic type
[Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey, 2020 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 23.3 x 15.9 cm. Cased in blue paper over boards with a dark blue cloth spinestrip. The covering paper was decorated with a silver metallic finish. Matching paper label, lettered in silver, to the spine. The self-ends are decorated with a metallic..... More
