The Print Clock
I was directed towards this web site by Edward Tufte’s Ask E.T.
S.Blair Hedges is the Professor of Biology at The Pennsylvania State University and he has created the Print Clock - a web page describing how to date prints and old books from previous centuries.
One of my reasons for following this link is that one of the examples that Professor Hedges uses is the Renaissance book, Bordone’s Isolario. This arouses my interest in islands of course and in particular the reminder that Books of islands (isolarii) were a popular literary form in Renaissance Italy. This author has already made reference to Cristoforo Buondelmonte, Incipt liber Insularum Arcipelagi here.
Posted on 02 Aug 2006 around 7pm • Tagged with: History | Print Technology | Permanent link to this article