Kay Amert research papers. 1986-2007.

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Kay Amert research papers. 1986-2007.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748598607

Collection contains the papers, research notes, article drafts, and professional correspondence of Kay Amert. The bulk of Amert's research papers focus on the work of Simon de Colines (died 1576), a sixteenth-century Renaissance printer based in Paris, France. The collection includes detailed notes on individual books from the Estienne and Colines presses, especially the types used. The books she studied are housed in various library collections worldwide. This collection also contains the draft of several research papers and book chapters Amert wrote based on her research, and includes some pre-publication correspondence with her editors and publishers about her writings.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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Estienne, Henri, 1460?-1520

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Colines, Simon de, 1480?-1546

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Amert, Kay

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Kay Amert (1947-2008) was a professor and typographer at the University of Iowa who studied French Renaissance printing and typography. Kay Amert was born November 11, 1947, in Madison, South Dakota, to Henry and Arlene Amert. Amert grew up in Madison, and graduated from Madison High School in 1965, going on to attend the University of Iowa. In 1967, while a student at the University of Iowa, she established an imprint, the Seamark Press. Upon completion of her degree, s...