Daily Archives: 02. March 2016

Strange Terms For Grand Types Of Books

I found this passionate article about incunables and facsimiles published in the magazine of The National Library of Scotland DISCOVER: La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo by Francesco Colonna (1499) supposed to be one of the most beautiful incunabula ever printed and William Morris’s Edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896) witnessed the aesthetic choices of the 19th artistic craftsmanship in contrast to  industrialisation and mass production.