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Christopher Plantin, a leather tooler of Antwerp, was making a late delivery one night in 1555 when thugs set upon him with swords and deeply pierced his shoulder. Thus crippled, Plantin had to turn to an easier and less muscular occupation; having made many leather bindings for books, he chose publishing. The same year he printed a small volume on etiquette called The Instruction of a Girl of Noble Birth-the first publication of what was to become the greatest printing house of the 16th and ryth centuries...
...presses still run at Plantin's establishment in Antwerp, but only to print souvenirs for tourists or the scrolls for such honorary citizens of Antwerp as General Anthony C. McAuliffe, Viscount Montgomery and Sir Winston Churchill. The house is now a museum, filled not only with the tools of the trade (15,000 type matrices and 5,000 punches, mostly from the 16th century), but also with more than 18,000 drawings, woodcuts and copperplate engravings used for illustrations. Though it is the best collection of its kind, it has been shown outside Antwerp only twice-in Belgrade...
...Sealskin. The Oxford Annotated Bible: Revised Standard Version ($7.95 and $12.50) is, says Oxford University Press, "expected to fill an existing need for an edition of the RSV that will provide authoritative explanations of many points in the text." William Collins Sons & Co. is advertising the Collins Clear-Type Plantin Text RSV Bible, which features "four pages of full-color illustrated helps, a Biblical time chart in color, an entirely new collection of modern full-color photographs, and an eight-page, full-color selection of maps"-all for only $8.50 in the edition with "French Morocco Black Leather semi-overlapping...
Other volumes of interest in the same case include one entitled "New England's First Fruits". This is the first printed account of Harvard and was published in London in 1643. There is also on display President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573. Dunster, who was Harvard's first president, had his bookplate in Greek pasted at the foot of the title page, and as it is dated 1638, it shows that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Dunster family Bible is another volume...
Professor George Parker Winship '93, whose recently published work on the history of printing from Gutenburg to Plantin is now on sale in the bookshops on the Square, has written the following review of the March issue of the Advocate especially for the Crimson...