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.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480. author
Imprint:Chicago : Ludlow Typograph Company, 1928.
Description:15 pages ; 30 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Jenson, Nicolas, -- approximately 1420-1480 -- Will.
Jenson, Nicolas, -- approximately 1420-1480.
Printers.
Printing -- Origin and antecedents.
Wills.
Italy -- Venice.
Bibliography.
Biography.
History.
Sources.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's c.2 issued in blue protective wrappers and includes prospectus for the Keepsake edition.
University of Chicago Library's c.2 once formed part of the R.R. Donnelley and Company Training Department Library. Donnelley #239.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2247515
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Will of the late Nicolas Jensen
Other authors / contributors:Butler, Pierce, 1886-1953.
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Training Department Library.
Notes:Caption title.
"Here endeth the 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. Which will is preserved in authentic copy among the archives of that noble city. It is now, after four hundred and forty-eight years first turned from Latin into the English tongue by Pierce Butler at the Newberry Library in Chicago. This book is Ludlow-set in a trial font of sixteen point Nicolas Jenson, a new type designed by Ernst Detterer, interpretting as faithfully as possible the original Roman type of Jensen, and printed in a limited edition on Rives paper by the Ludlow Typography Company of Chicago in the month of November, 1928". --Colophon.

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