A couple weeks ago I took my students to the Houghton Library at Harvard to show them samples of letterpress incunables. I saw this example of exquisite letter design by Aldus Manutius from around 1510 and had to share. Those ligatures just slay me.
Boston-Based Printing & Instruction in the Antique Art of Letterpress
A couple weeks ago I took my students to the Houghton Library at Harvard to show them samples of letterpress incunables. I saw this example of exquisite letter design by Aldus Manutius from around 1510 and had to share. Those ligatures just slay me.