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44 Cards in this Set
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Bible Gutenberg (1450-55) Superb typographic legibility and texture, generous margins, excellent presswork |
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The Nuremberg Chronicle Anonymous One of the Best documented early printed books (1473, incunabulum) |
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Aldus Manutius' Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499) Considered 1st modern book. Composed of Roman/Greek |
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Champfleury (1529) Geoffry Tory Set of borders, animal motifs, color by hand. |
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry (1482) Erhardt Ratdolt: dazzling white black design brackets text, line diagrams in wide margins define terms. |
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Han's Holbein's Imagines Morti (Dance of Death, 1538) |
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Biblia Polyglotta (1569-72) Cristophe Plantin: was a prestige project, typesetting started. |
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Fra Mauro's World Map (1450) Map by Venetian monk. Great memorials of medieval Cartography. |
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Giambattista Bodoni's Epithalamia Exoticis Linguis Reddita (1775) Bodoni admired baskerbille. Evolved a "New Face", letters produce strong contrast |
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William Caslon A Specimen of Printing Types (1785) |
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The Pencil of Nature (1844) William henry fox Tablot 1st book to be illustrated with photographs |
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Paul Nadar Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (mid 1800's) |
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Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (1856) 37 general principles of form/colour in architecture/decorative arts. 20 chapters. |
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Krebs Lithographing Co.: Tobacco ad and a poster for Cincinnati's 9th Exposition of Art and Industry (1881) |
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Walter Crane's Railroad Alphabet 1865 Book illustrator, textile/card designer. |
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Charles Dana Gibson' Have a Book in case you are Bored (1912) American graphic artist, created Gibson Girl. |
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Howard Pyle's Marooned Pirate (1887) Best illustrators of 19th century, books for young. |
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Ford Madox Brown's Work (1852-1865) Took 12 yrs to produce, made pre-raphaelite contributions. |
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A.H. Mackmurdo's Chair (1880's) Progressive architect/designer Arts/craft movement |
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Jan van Krimpen's pages from Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach By Ronald Holst, Paladium Series, 1920 Krimpen was a dutch typographer/designer |
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Saturday evening Post: Illustration of Otton von Bismarck by George Gibbs (1899-1937) |
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John Everett Millais' Christ in the house of his Parents (1850) Controvestial, pre-raphaelite. |
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The American River Ganges (1871, Harper's Weekly) Thomas Nast Woodblock |
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896) William Morris System of types, borders, initials, Kelmscott Style. |
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Ishtar's Descent to the Nether World (1903) Lucien and Esther Pissaro Intense expressionistic energy |
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Le Pays des Fées Universal Exposition (1889) Poster art by Jules Chéret |
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Eugene Grasset, Three women and Three Wolves (1890s) |
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The Eyes of Eros Aubrey Beardsley (1895) Art Nouveau, emotional contour |
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Gismonda (1894) Alphonse Mucha |
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Poster for Tropon Food Concentrate (1899) Henry van de Velde Inspired by separation of egg yolks from egg whites. |
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Psyche (1898) Jan Toorop Symbolic, tragic erotic fairy tale. |
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The Chap Book (1895) Will Bradley's poster |
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Poster for Campari (1901) Marcello Dudovich |
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Rajah Coffee Poster (1899) Privat Livemont |
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Beggarstaff Corn Flour Kassama Lithograph from "Les Maitre de L'Affiches" series. Paris. 1900 |
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Peter Behrens The Kiss (Circa 1900) 6 color woodcut, controvesial for androgynous imagery. |
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Frantisec Kupka Defiance Black Idol 1900-1903 |
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Josef Hoffman's Stoclet Palace 1904 Gesamtkunstwerk Characteristics of Jugendstil. |
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Victor Horta's Museum, In Horta's former house/atelier, Brussels, 1898 Key euro nouveau architect |
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Jan Delville The Treasures of Satan, 1895 |
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Rudolph Koch (1876-1934) Neuland Best known type face of Koch |
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Selywn Image's The Century Guild Hobby Horse 1886 |
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Gustav Doré's The Divine Comedy 1867 Printmaker, painter, sculptor. |
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Margaret MacDonald's The White Cockade Tea Room Menu 1911 |
