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Erhard Ratdolt

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influence on title pages

  • Morison, Stanley: Times New Roman sample
    In typography: Maturation of the printed book

    …appear until 1476, when one Erhard Ratdolt in Venice used it on an astronomical and astrological calendar. The device was well established by the end of the incunabula period. Continuing the tradition of relative anonymity of authorship of the manuscript books, the earliest pages never, and later ones only seldom,…

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