French Renaissance Printing Types: a Conspectus

Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, French Renaissance Printing Types: a Conspectus London: The Bibliographical Society / The Printing Historical Society / Oak Knoll Press (2010).

Additions and Corrections

p. 30: Type-casting and punchcutting
Amend line 19 to read: ‘… the printing trade in the 1541 Fontainebleau decree (J.-F. Gilmont, in: The Library, 6th ser., 2 (1980), 132-33), which ...’

p. 193: No. 119. Garamont's Great Primer Roman^B
Replace fig. 119c with the alphabet shown in verv-rom-112-2006z* [PDF, 44 kb download pdf file].
image: verv-rom-112-2006z *verv-rom-112-2006z.
Replacement for Fig. 119c

p. 417: No. 400: Du Boys's Two-line Great Primer Hebrew
Correct "First seen" to read:
1546, Venice, M.A. Giustiniani (Dawid ben ’Abudarham, ’Abudraham : ... ’ah.el le-fareš tefilot kol ha-šanah; STCi, 3)

Replace fig. 400 with verv-hb-6-1546b* [PDF, 22 kb download pdf file].

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Replacement for Fig. 400

Du Boys's Two-line Great Primer Hebrew [Hb 6] or Trismégiste (1546) as it appears on the title-page of Dawid ben ’Abudarham, ’Abudraham : ... ’ah.el le-fareš tefilot kol ha-šanah, Venice, M.A. Giustiniani, 1546. Courtesy University Library Amsterdam. With thanks to Stephen Lubell (Oxford) and Adri Offenberg (Amsterdam).