Item #052191 THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON, Nicolas Jenson.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON,
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON,

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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