old school | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com Boston-Based Printing & Instruction in the Antique Art of Letterpress Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://reflexletterpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-R-Colon-32x32.gif old school | Reflex Letterpress https://reflexletterpress.com 32 32 143383451 Aldus Manutius Type Sample https://reflexletterpress.com/aldus-manutius-type-sample/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:55:48 +0000 https://reflexletterpress.com/?p=469 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.

The post Aldus Manutius Type Sample first appeared on Reflex 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.

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