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This facsimile edition features Giovanni Battista Betti's elaborate
title page, identifying the figures to follow, and twenty-four
leaves of plates, each with a different letter of the alphabet, all
reproduced at original size.
Philip Hofer, who founded the Department of Printing and Graphic
Arts in the Houghton Library, was a curator and collector of great
zeal and singular taste. In this exhibition catalogue his
successor, Eleanor Garvey, explores the rich legacy Hofer
bequeathed to Harvard: extraordinary manuscripts, writing manuals,
illustrated books, and examples of fine and unusual printing. The
objects of Hofer's fancy constitute a teaching collection and a
scholarly resource of the highest kind. They also justify the
reputation he earned over a long and unique career as the "Prince
of the Eye."
This is a facsimile edition of Giambattista Bodoni's first type
specimen, "Fregi e Majuscole" of 1771, two copies of which were
given to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the
Houghton Library by William Bentinck-Smith, Class of 1937.
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