MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01718cam a2200301 a 4500
001 40005278
003 DLC
005 20130409082039.0
008 990119s1940 maucfh 000 0 eng
010 $a 40005278
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aZ23.A3$bP7
051 $aZ43.A3$bP7$cCopy 3. Formerly owned by Bruce Rogers.
100 1 $aPlantin, Christophe,$dapproximately 1520-1589.
245 10 $aAccount of calligraphy & printing in the sixteenth century /$cfrom dialogues attributed to Christopher Plantin, printed and published by him in Antwerp in 1567 ; French and Flemish text in facsimile ; English translation and notes by Ray Nash ; and foreword by Stanley Morison.
246 30 $aAccount of calligraphy and printing in the sixteenth century
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bDept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library,$c1940$e(Boston :$fMerrymount Press)
300 $a30 p., [1], 219-255 p. of plates :$bfacsims., port. ;$c19 cm.
500 $a"Max Rooses, the biographer of Plantin, while stating that Grevin was general author of the Dialogues, and that the Flemish translation was by Pierre Kerkhovius and Corneille Bomberghe, believes that chapter on writiing and printing was written by Plantin himeself"--P. 30.
500 $a"Two hundred and fifty copies"--Verso of half title.
650 0 $aPrinting$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aType and type-founding$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aCalligraphy$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aNash, Ray,$d1905-
700 1 $aGrévin, Jacques,$d1538?-1570.
700 1 $aRogers, Bruce,$d1870-1957,$eformer owner.$5DLC
710 2 $aMerrymount Press.
710 2 $aPforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC