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Pomp & Hollywood. The charter actually exists. The official English text was printed on 145 pages in 14-pt. Bodoni type and bound in blue leather. The longer Russian text was in smaller type...
...prettily done up little thing, printed by The Star Co., of Boston, who have rather charmingly combined a 22-point Weltschmerz Italic on the even pages with a Bodoni Double-face on the odd pages. This is a typographical innovation that may meet with a certain amount of opinionated disapproval at first as it necessitates going through the book twice. We recommend as a solution reading it through an ordinary stereoscope, which can be purchased at your local novelty store if you don't happen to have one lying about the house. This will make the copy thoroughly legible...
...commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giambatista Bodoni (1740-1813), one of the greatest printers of all time, the Harvard University Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts has arranged a public exhibit of typical and important examples of printing by the great Italian master...
Included in the display are volumes once in the libraries of European royal families, books in various different language scripts, and examples of Bodoni's various effects with illustrations and decorations. One volume is printed on silk cloth...
...Bodoni, whose plant was in Parma, Italy, was a master type designer and cutter, who developed over 140 different Roman type characters, and from whose work nearly all modern type faces stem, the librarians pointed...