Book published to accompany the exhibition "The printed book: a visual history," at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam featuring 125 books from different periods and countries in their collection--Postscript . Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-459) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The invention and spread of printing -- Nicolas Jenson -- Gheraert Leeu -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Bonino de Boninis -- Jacob Bellaert -- Nuremberg chronicle -- Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- The sixteenth century -- Wolfgang Hopyl & Henri Estienne I -- Aldus Manutius -- Luca Pacioli -- Henri Estienne I -- Complutensian polyglot -- Johann Froben -- Theuerdank -- Vitruvius -- Ludovico degli Arrighi -- Albrecht Dürer -- Geoffroy Tory -- Marco Fabio Calvo -- Decoration and illustration -- Hans Holbein the Younger -- Robert Estienne -- Andreas Vesalius -- Simon de Colines -- Jacques Kerver -- Michael Isingrin -- Michel de Vascosan -- Jean de Tournes -- Robert Granjon -- Christoffel Plantin -- Plantin polyglot -- Henri Estienne II -- Giovan Francesco Cresci -- The Dutch golden age -- Willem Barentsz --Jan van den Velde -- Vincenzo Scamozzi -- Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn -- The Elzeviers -- Joan Blaeu -- Joseph Moxon -- The eighteenth century -- Cornelis de Bruijn -- Charles Plumier & Imprimerie royale -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Martin-Dominique Fertel -- Mark Catesby -- George Bickham -- Giovanni Battista Piranesi -- Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert -- John Baskerville -- Pierre-Simon Fournier -- Johannes Enschedé -- Louis-René Luce -- Joaquín Ibarra -- François-Ambroise Didot -- Giambattista Bodoni -- Thomas Bewick -- Redouté & Didot le Jeune -- Imprimerie impériale -- Nineteenth-century graphic techniques -- Alois Senefelder -- William Savage -- Vincent Figgins -- Jean Midolle -- John Gould -- Gottlieb Haase Söhne -- Chiswick Press -- John Sliegh & Birket Foster -- Victorian gift book -- Julius Klinkhardt -- Eadweard Muybridge -- James McNeill Whistler -- Gerrit Dijsselhof -- Private presses and traditional book typography -- William Morris -- Théo van Rysselberghe -- Lucien & Esther Pissarro -- Theodore Low De Vinne -- Count Harry Kessler & Emery Walker -- Rudolf von Larisch -- Doves Press -- Henry van de Velde -- Peter Behrens -- American Type Founders Company -- Avant-garde and new typography -- Francesco Cangiullo -- Fernand Léger -- Bruce Rogers -- El Lissitzky -- Rudolf Koch -- Francis Thibaudeau -- Theo van Doesburg & Käte Steinitz -- Karel Teige -- H.N. Werkman -- W.A. Dwiggins -- Wierner Werkstätte -- Count Harry Kessler & Edward Gordon Craig -- A.M. Cassandre -- John Heartfield -- Jan Tschichold -- Eric Gill -- Piet Zwart -- Jan van Krimpen -- Pierre Faucheux -- Modernism and Swiss typography -- Richard Paul Lohse -- Jan Tschichold -- Herbert Bayer -- Willem Sandberg -- Marie Neurath -- Robert Massin -- Lester Beall -- Paul Rand -- Karl Gerstner -- Max Huber & Giovanni Pintori -- Willy Fleckhaus -- Rémy Peignot & Adrian Frutiger -- Wim Crouwel -- Quentin Fiore -- Christian Chruxin -- Wolf Vostell -- Katy Hepburn -- Massimo Vignelli -- Helmut Brade -- Postmodernism -- Irma Boom -- Paula Scher -- Bruce Mau -- Rudy VanderLans & Zuzana Licko -- Derek Birdsall -- Stefan Sagmeister -- Joost Grootens -- Irma Boom -- Postscript.
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