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Splendour of ornament: PB 133-2003

Object information

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Titles

Splendour of ornament

Maker(s)

Author: Morison, Stanley
Author: Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio
Contributor: Potter, Esther
Contributor: Wolpe, Berthold
Publisher: Lion and Unicorn Press
Designer: Percy, Graham
Weaver: Lawson, James

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Description

By Stanley Morison. Specimens selected from the Essempio di recammi, the first Italian manual of decoration, Venice 1524 by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. His life and literary remains, the Essempio di recammi and his typographical style by Esther Potter. Preface by Berthold Wolpe.

72 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 27 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1968

Note

Printed on double leaves. On verso of t.-p: "The text has been set in Monotype Bembo and printed on Basingwerk. The cover cloth has been Jacquard woven by James Lawson in the School of textile design of the Royal College of Art in Dicel yarns from British Celanese Ltd. The book has been designed by Graham Percy and printed and bound by the Lion and Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art, London." Museum has copy no. 165. Bound in original gold cloth over boards - with plain paper protective paper wrapper.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 133-2003
Primary reference Number: 95153
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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