THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON,
printer, who departed this life at the City of Venice in the month of September, A.D. 1480. [Translated from the Latin by Pierce Butler]. Pp. [16], large decorative initial printed in blue; impl. 8vo; cream papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, boards decorated in blind, top corner of lower board slightly bumped; blue textured cloth dust wrapper, the backstrip lettered in gilt; uncut; ex libris label laid on upper pastedown, and A.I.G.A. letter to members, dated January 1929, laid on lower pastedown; Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, 1928. Limited edition (limitation unspecified). *Printed in a trial font of 16 point Nicolas Jenson, a type designed by Ernst Detterer, interpreting Jenson's original roman type. A gift of the Ludlow Typograph Company, through the courtesy of George O. Cromwell and Douglas C. McMurtrie, members of The American Institute of Graphic Arts, and issued as the thirty-fourth item in the series of Keepsakes from the Institute. The typography and binding of the book were designed by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Item #052191
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