The books of Aldus Manutius possess an enduring appeal, for their sense of order and visual-semantic structure. After intensive examination of some Aldine books, Burnhill proposes a hypothesis about the co-ordination of the dimensions in type in this printing. It seems that a system of typographic measurement informed this work, two hundred years before such a system was made explicit in printing.
| availability | out of print |
| published | 2003.08.28 |
| extent | 144 pp |
| dimensions | 240 × 170 mm |
| illustrations | b&w pictures |
| binding | sewn paperback |
| ISBN | 0-907259-19-7 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-19-0 |
| price | £17.50 |
Introduction
Primary sources used in this enquiry
Note on methods of measurement
Typographic norms
Aldine in-house norms
Design analysis:
- Lascaris’s Erotemata and the octavo classics
- Aldine character sets: relative proportions
- Typographic reference grids
The mould
Coda
- Positioning for meaning
- Anthony Froshaug’s homage to Aldus
- Ernest Hoch & Maurice Goldring, ‘Type size’
Bibliography
Index
