Cuts used in Historic printing types, Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp, and Moxon's Mechanick exercises [scrapbook], 1886-1896.

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Cuts used in Historic printing types, Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp, and Moxon's Mechanick exercises [scrapbook], 1886-1896.

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Facsimiles of type specimens, illustrations, and text pages used by De Vinne in three of his works: Historic printing types : a lecture read before the Grolier Club of New York, January 25, 1885 (New York : The Grolier Club, 1886); Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp (New York : The Grolier Club, 1888); and Moxon's Mechanick exercises (New York : Typothetae, 1896).

1 v. (loose) ; 23 cm.

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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1700

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De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914

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Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was apprenticed to the printer's trade in Newburgh, N.Y. but came to New York City in 1848, where he eventually became a partner in the shop of Francis Hart. On the death of the latter in 1877, De Vinne became possessed of the business eventually known as the De Vinne Press. He was recognized as a master printer and developed a comprehensive knowledge of the history of typography, which he distilled in several publications. He was a founder (1884) and president ...