The printer of this work was a physician.* The volumes which issued from his press are of equal beauty and rarity; and it is seldom that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us. The types are a mixture... Bibliotheca Spenceriana ... - Pagina 305door Earl George John Spencer Spencer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1814Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Myers & co., booksellers, London - 1655 - 334 pagina’s
...printing at Mantua in 1475, and only four books from his press are known, all of them very rare. His types are a mixture of those used at the early Milan...however, taller and more beautiful than either of them. Schall was also a physician, and signs his dedication to Prince Frederick Gonzage, " Johannes Schallus... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1814 - 564 pagina’s
...morocco binding. 685. EUSEBIUS. HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA. Laline. Printed by Schallus. Mantua. 14/9. Folio. The printer of this work was a physician.*...not, in his prefatory address to Frederic Gonzaga, [Mantuanorum Princeps '] have said that he had first rescued his author from the dust and obscurity... | |
| Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1903 - 128 pagina’s
...behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us. The types are «. mixture of those used at the early Milan and Parma...however, taller and more beautiful than either of them." — Dibdin, BMioth. Spenc. Verona, 1472 Paulus Friedenberger, 1486 213 LUCRETIUS DE RERUM NATORA (Fol.... | |
| Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1907 - 570 pagina’s
...we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us. The type« are a mixture of those used at the early Milan and Parma presses ; being, however, taller and more beantiful than either of them.'' — Dibdin, Biblioth. Spenc. 23 HOMER, FIRST EDITION. I. ILIAD. (Fol.... | |
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