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J.F. Rosart Great Primer Roman No. 784
A great primer size roman type cut by Jacques-Francois Rosart and reproduced in Johannes Enschede's type specimen of 1768.
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Roman Typefaces
As defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus under roman (typeface style group): "Large group of typefaces based generally on 15th-century…
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The Type that Changed the World : The Enigma of Gutenberg's B42 Type
The more we look at the printed letters of Johannes Gutenberg's famous 42-line Bible, the more strange and enigmatic his...
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Grandjean-Simonneau Romain du Roi (1702)
A digitization of Phillipe Grandjean's Romain du Roi type from the book Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (1702), the…
Engraving of Johannes Enschedé by Cornelis van Noorde
An engraving of Johannes Enschedé (1708-1780), owner of the Enschedé printing house in Haarlem with his father Izaak Enschedé. Johannes Enschedé…
Johann Gutenberg 42-Line Bible Blackletter (1454-1455)
A minimalist reproduction of some of the more than 270 characters estimated to have made up the type sort for Johannes Gutenberg's 42-line Bible of…