Love Letters: A Gallery of Type selections from the rare book collections LE PIU INSIGNI PITTURE PARMENSI… Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) Parma: Dalla Tipografia Bodoniana, 1809 ND621 P3 B63 1809 algebraic Bodoni, complete letters, lean as greyhounds, subject to the white rectangle of Geometry; THOM SMITHI ANGLI DE REPVBLICA ANGLORVM LIBRI TRES… Thomas Smith (1513-1577) Lvg. Batavorvm: ex officina Elzeviriana, CIC ICC XXX...

08 January, 2021 /

In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

16 May, 2019 /

Love Letters: A Gallery of Type Love Letters celebrates type, typographers, and printers – from Johann Gutenberg (c.1398-1468), who developed printing with movable type, to Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), an American typographer and book designer. Type is designed to be both functional and evocative. Type has personality,...

21 July, 2016 /