Dipity
De structuur van het college wordt iets losser dan ik in de reeks op deze website heb beschreven: we starten de verschillende onderdelen langzamer op (tijdslijn, blog etc.), het huiswerk is wat min...
Ja: daar is een stofzuigerkoning te Dordrecht op binnengelopen. Het is een soort afkorting van KNOwLedge - iets nieuws van Google: een wiki voor de wetenschap met peer-reviewed artikelen: je schrij...
Most of this blog is in Dutch but since I have added a link to the timeline for the history of the book, I have decided to add something in English: In Amsterdam we teach the history of the book to...
Vandaag bleek dat Adobe CS3 alleen voor medewerkers verkrijgbaar is. PD
The book in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: the transmission of knowledge Datum/tijd: vrijdag 29 augustus 2008, 09.30 – 18.00 uur Plaats: Bibliotheek Bijzond...
Tijdsbalken zijn nuttig en kunnen mooi zijn. Sinds kort is er een website die mooie tijdbalken aanbiedt die makkelijk kunnen worden opgetuigd tot fantastische en onderhoudende wetenschappelijke ins...
Volgens een bevriende docent schrijven letterenstudenten in Leiden het liefst met potlood en zijn ze stuk voor stuk computeranalfabeet. Wie weet. Al geloof ik niet dat dat in de grote stad ook zo ...
vandaag ontving ik een mail met een grandioze aanbieding van Surfspot: Adobe CS3 design premium voor 35 euro. Studenten en medewerkers moeten dit vanzelfsprekend onmiddellijk aanschaffen! PD
In de Universiteitsbibliotheek worden vele honderden zestiende-eeuwse Franse uitgaven bewaard. Een flink aantal daarvan bleek bij een steekproef aantekeningen te bevatten uit de tijd zelf. Wij wil...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dijstelberge/sets/72157605198513308/ De eerste van wat het grootste overzicht van Nederlands typografisch materiaal moet worden. Zie verder de link met typografisch ma...
Het ontwerp van de website wordt de komende weken aangepast door peter van der Lee (zie ook de website van timelost - hiernaast onder boeken en vormgeving): een kolom met overbodige informatie is ...
Ik ben begonnen met het samenstellen van mijn colleges. Commentaar en vragen zijn welkom op: p.dijstelberge@uva.nl
De letterproef van de weduwe JJ Schipper uit 1755 bewerkt. Sommige houtblokken zijn dan ruim 150 jaar oud. Nu Ploos van Amstel. PD
Vandaag de eerste ca 200 digitale opnames gemaakt van lettermateriaal. Ik gebruik een Canon 400D met een 10-22mm EF/S lens en fotografeer in RAW. Met behulp van een goede metalen lineaal kunnen de ...
Binnenkort zal een stage worden aangeboden bij Bijzondere Collecties. Het betreft onderzoek naar zestiende-eeuwse Franse boeken in de Amsterdamse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Deze bevatten vaak contem...
En materia de literatura infantil en español, encontramos que muchas editoriales comienzan a publicar más a autores en español y se traducen menos obras infantiles de otros países, ejemplos emblemá...
Del aviador francés Antonine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944). Escrita en Estados Unidos , ha sido traducida a más de 180 idiomas
Hendrik Werkman was a printer who started to experiment with color and type. During the occupation he published the work that made him famous. Werkman was murdered by the nazis in 1945
About 70 million people died, most of them civilians, more than 6 million of them Jews, murdered by the nazis. (the picture shows the monument for the Holocaust in Berlin).
John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954) illustrated Dolores for an edition of Swinburnes poem, published by Stols. White line engraving
Stanley Morison (1889 – 1967) English typographer, designer and historian of printing. Looking at 16th century books we soon notice how modern they look. More than books from the 17th-18th centu...
In 1932 the Romulus was cut, a family of letters in different sizes and weights and with and without serif.
Designed by Stanley Morison in 1931 and first used in 1932. The Times New Roman is probably the most used type in the world since it is standard on almost every personal computer
Etching by Picasso (1881-1973) for an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the first book published by Skira.
An extraordinary genius, Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (1882 –1940) designed great typefaces with the Gill Sans being the most famous. it was based on the sans-serif lettering originally designed by John...
Publisher Simon and Shuster was founded in 1924 and its first title was The Cross Word Puzzle Book; it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed. The publishers had commissioned t...
The Dutch artist and architect Wijdeveldt was the force behind this extraordinary magazine that shows Dutch design at it's best. It existed from 1918 until 1932.
Frances Steloff opens the Gotham Book Mart."Among those who came to chat to browse & to see if their books & plays were on the shelves were Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, H. L. Menken & Euegene...
The bolshevik revolution that resulted in the USSR. The Russian modernists were enthousiast about a revolution that in time would kill them all.
1914-1918: the first world war
In 1912 S.H. de Roos created the first modern Dutch typedesign: the Hollandsche Mediaeval. Sjoerd de Roos was a socialist en his rather heavy but still elegant designs show the influence of William...
De Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), mejor conocido como Mark Twain. En esta novela también aparece el personaje de Tom Sawyer
De Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), mejor conocido como Mark Twain. En esta novela también aparece el personaje de Tom Sawyer
William Morris (1834-1896), socialist and designer, printer and architect and painter, and (a rather bad) writer. He created the first private press (The Kelmscott press) and was responsible for t...
Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854 – 1899) revolutionized typesetting with his invention of the linotype. This machine was operated with a keyboard and cast a line op type at a time. It as used for newspape...
Al igual que "El gigante egoísta", "El ruiseñor y la rosa" formó parte de "El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos" de Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Formó parte de una compilación la compilación de cuentos de Hadas "El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos" de Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900)
De Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), mejor conocido como Mark Twain. En esta novela también aparece el personaje de Tom Sawyer
Del novelista escocés Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894)
One of the most beautiful bookshops of the world can be found in Porto. Built as a bookstore in 1881 and a reason to move to Porto.
De Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), mejor conocido como Mark Twain
También de Lewis Carroll a quien se le atribuye la literatura "nonsense"
Escrita por el inglés Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mejor conocido por su seudónimo Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). Alicia es un cuento ampliamente difundido a nivel mundial que surgió una de tantas tardes...
The picture shows the Press-room of the New York Tribune in 1861 with a giant newspaper press. Typesetting was still done as in the days of Gutenberg.
During a long trip with HMS Beagle in 1835 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) collected the data that would result in the book that changed our thinking about the natural world.
Colección ampliada de los "Cuentos para la infancia y el hogar". Gracias a esta versión ampliada, es posible conocer cuentos como "Blancanieves", "La Cenicienta", "Hansel y Gretel", en incluso lleg...
A 19th century collection of pictures of animals: the iconographia zoologica is the second collection in size and scope of pictures of animals.
Honoré de Balzac (1799 –1850) the famous French novelist wrote a great description of a printing house in his "Lost illusions" part of the "Human Comedy" series. Having been a printer himself Bal...
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851) was a French chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. The French government bought his patent and gave it "to th...
Chromolithography was patented and perhaps invented in 1837 by Godefroy Engelmann. As a way of rendering colors it has hardly been surpassed in modern times but as it was a very timeconsuming job f...
William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of "The Liberator" The Abolitionist newspaper.
Edición de 50 relatos de los Hermanos Grimm. Esta edición alcanzó un gran éxito en ventas.
William Blake (1757-1827) invented a new technique that inversed the normal way of etching and is called relief etching.
The famous manual by Bodoni, beautiful pages, great type, printed by his widow.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen fue la primera recopilación publicada en dos volúmenes por los Hermanos Grimm entre 1812 y 1815
The Stanhope press, the first printing press to be built entirely from iron was called after its inventor. Charles, Third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816) invented his press around 1800 (the earliest sur...
Los hermanos Jakob y Wilhelm Grimm, se ven influidos por Clemens Brentano y Achim von Arnim, a quienes conocieron en la Universidad de Maburgo, y gracias a ellos comienza su interés por los cuento...
En distintos países europeos se establecen formas que limitan y protegen a los menores en el ámbito laboral; es decir, que a lo largo del siglo XIX los niños dejan de ser trabajadores y comienzan i...
The timeline of Napoleons life is defined by his great battles, but the era of Napoleon also brought a complete overhaul of the society and culture of Europe.
Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771, Prague – 26 February 1834, Munich) was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796
Louis XVI died under the guilotine and so did his wife Marie Antionette and a big part of the French nobility. The mechanisation of death - in a sense the guillotine reminds one of the printing pre...
A process invented by William Blake (1757-1827) in which the inkt was applied to the parts that were not bitten away. The coloring was done by hand.
Serie de 157 fábulas distribuídas en 9 libros, escritos por Félix María Samaniego (1745-1801). Escritas en verso, con un fin didáctico y moral, las Fábulas de Samaniego ridiculizan los defectos hum...
Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 29, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a typeface which ...
John Baskerville (January 28, 1706 - January 8, 1775) was was a printer in Birmingham, member of the Royal Society of Arts. He worked with his punchcutter John Handy in the design of many typefaces...
Gautier d'Agoty, Jacques Fabian. Anatomie generale des viscères . ([Paris: s.n., 1752]). Jacques Gautier d'Agoty was born in Marseilles in about 1717 and was trained as a printmaker under the note...
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried. Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. (Londini : Typis H. Woodfall, impensis Johannis et Pauli Knapton, 1749). Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (i.e. Weiss) was bor...
Escrito por John Newberry, este libro es considerado el primer libro infantil que no estaba basado en la tradición oral. Y es considerado el primer éxito literario infantil de Newberry
Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) used a special technique for his etchings so he could make more prints. He is known for his enourmous production and for his erotic prints (some scholars use the word p...
De Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
William Caslon (1692–1766) was an English gunsmith who started a typefoundry in 1720. His designs followed the Dutch examples that were common in his day.
Escrita por Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731). Se cree que esta novela que narra las aventuras de un náufrago en una isla desierta, puede estar basada en la historia del naufragio de Alexander Selkirk.
Shou, Hua. Jushikei hakki (Shi si jing fa hui. Japanese & Chinese). ([Tokyo] : Suharaya Heisuke kanko, Kyoho gan [1716]). Hua Shou was a noted Chinese physician of the mid-14th century. He is perh...
Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. Defoe’s pamphlet satirized the intole...
Si prestamos más atención a las fechas mencionadas, resulta interesante averiguar qué fue lo que dio inicio a la literatura infantil, ésta surge precisamente cuando a los niños se los dirige a la e...
De eerste succesvolle letterontwerper in Engeland, daarvoor werden letters geïmporteerd via Nederlanden (bedrijf bleef bestaan tot 1960). Zijn lettertypes waren gedurende 60 jaar in bijna alle Eng...
Philippe Grandjean (1666-1714) was a French type engraver notable for his series of Roman and italic types known as Romain du Roi. King Louis XIV, in 1692, directed that a typeface be designed for...
Bidloo, Govard. Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams. (Amsterdam: By de weduwe van Joannes van Someren, de erfgenaamen van Joannes van Dyk, Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1690). Govard Bidloo ...
William III of Orange conquered England and thus saved the Parlaiment and the Anglican church.
A great edition of a great book: Almost 200 years after the first printed edition this one was published, dedicated to king Louis XIV. The machines are of interest: they are very big indeed.
An extraordinary edition of Vitruvius was dedicated to Louis XIV, in 1684 at the apogee of his power. The machines are interesting as they are a lot bigger than in any other edition.
Nicholas Kis (1650-1702) was sent by his compatriots to Amsterdam to learn the booktrade and see about the publication of a Hungarian Bible. He became a typedesigner of fame. Some well known moder...
Conocida en español como "Cuentos de mama Oca" o "Cuentos de mamá ganso" es una recopilación de cuentos de Charles Perrault (1628-1703). La mayoría de los especialistas en Literatura infantil, co...
Se piensa que es Giovanni Batista Basile quien da inicio a la tradición literaria infantil con el Pentamerone
The Dutch master Romeyn de Hooghe published more than 4500 etchings. He used a special technique with hard varnisch to etch his plates deeper so that more prints could be made
The mennonite inventor Jan van der Heyden invented a new firehose - to late to save the great printing house of the Blaeus that burned down that year. This fire is shown in the book that Van der He...
After twenty years of government by the Dutch states, under the ascendancy of pensionary Johan de Witt, William of Orange was named stadholder.
Dirck Jansz van Santen was a 17th century master in the coloring of engravings and maps who produced some of the most beautiful books ever published. He 'painted' the color on the engraving instead...
In 1666 a big part of London burnt down after being hit by a severe plague. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys left a eyewitness account of both the plague and the great fire.
The famous mathematician Christiaen Huygens (1629-1695) was one of the foremost scientists of his time. He was the first to observe that the rings of Saturn consisted of rocks and also discovered t...
In 1649 Blaeu published the first latin edition of his atlas of Dutch towns. It was part of his project to create the greatest atlas that the world had ever known. The picture shows Amersfoort, a ...
In 1648 the 80-years war in the Netherlands and the 30-years war in Germany both ended.
One of the few bookillustrations by Rembrandt was this etching in a book of Herckmans. Normally an artist would do a design that was engraved so that more prints could be made. Later in the 17th ce...
Gerard Thibaults Academie de l’espée ou se demonstrent par reigles mathematiques sur le fondement d’un cercle mysterieux la theorie et pratique des vrais et iusqu’a present incognus secrets du man...
Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) was probably the most ambitious printer who ever lived in the Netherlands. He is rightly famous for his great atlasses. his printing house was the greatest of the Netherlands...
Gabriel Naudé (1600–1653) was a French librarian and scholar. The work that brought him lasting fame was l'Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque. Naude was later able to put into practice all the he...
In 1626 Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657) started the first Hebrew press in Amsterdam.
The father of analytical bibliography: the compositors and correctors of this book made a record number of mistakes and as these were corrected on the press most copies of this edition differ from ...
Although all people crave for news all the time and have been writing, reading and printing it for ever, the first newspaper as we know it was published in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1618
Bonaventura Elzevier (1583–1652) is probably the greatest of the famous house of Elzevier: the Dutch printers who are known for their beautiful small editions.
Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg (1557-1612) was little effective as a ruler but a great patron of the arts and science.
William Gilbert (1544 – 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher. His primary work was De Magnete. In this work he describes his experiments from which he concluded that the Earth w...
Theodor Galle (1571–1633), after Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) (1523–1605) - a detailed engraving of a printing house that gives a detailed view of the work.
Henry IV (1553-1610) changed his religion for political reasons and gave the protestants religious freedom. He was killed by a fanatical monk. The edict of Nantes (1598) was repudiated by Louis XIV.
Josephus Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was known for his great learning and for his sarcasm. In 1593 he became a well paid professor in Leiden where he wrote a very important and famous work on the c...
Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) worked for the Portugese in India. He published a book on his travels that inspired Dutch merchants to finance voyages of exploration.
De arte natantdi, published in 1587 - the woodcuts in this interesting book by Everard Digby are set up so that parts could be echanged. Digby, a fellow at Cambrigde was expelled for blowing his ho...
Gerardus Mercator (1512 – 1594) was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich. He lived in Duisburg from 1552. Mercator invented the map-projection that is ...
After the deliverance of the Spaniards in 1574 - still remembered every year when the citizens of Leiden will have their herrings, white bread and 'hutspot' on october 3 - William of Orange offered...
An event with far reaching effects on world history: in 1568 the Netherlands revolted against their Spanish masters. During a war that lasted on and of for 80 years the Dutch Republic not only beca...
Charles V ruled more of the world than any man before or after him: the greater part of Europe and extensive colonies in the Americas and the east. His reign was plagued by the reformation that res...
Robert Granjon had his handwriting made into a typeface, now known as Civilité, after the most popular book that was printed in this typeface: A book on civil behavior for children by Erasmus. The ...
Christophe Plantin (c. 1520-1589) was an influential Renaissance printer, who was born in France and who settled in the city of Antwerp in 1549. In 1555 he opened his own printing establishment. ...
Estienne, Charles. De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres. (Parisiis: Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1545). Charles Estienne, or Carolus Stephanus, was born about 1504, the third son of Henri ...
Andreas Vesalius (Brussels, 1514 - Zakynthos, 1564) was an anatomist and physician, and the founder of modern human anatomy. He was the author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy,...
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 –1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a heliocentric cosmology. His book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is oft...
The Dance of Death of Holbein the Younger is one of the greatest examples of the woodcut technique: most 16th century illustrations were woodcuts, some of them of great quality. His Dance of Death...
Jan van Leiden (1509-1536) was a leader of the chiliastic anabaptist movement. The anabaptists had taken Muenster in Germany in 1534 where they soon introduced a reign of terror. Most of the milita...
Claude Garamond (ca 1580-1561) was a French publisher and typedesigner who is known to every computerowner of the world. He designed a beautiful greek type and a roman that was recently recreated ...
Dürer, Albrecht. Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. (Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneyder, 1528). Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a painter, graphic artist, and humanist. Dürer is best known f...
Gersdorff, Hans von. Feldtbůch der Wundartzney : newlich getruckt und gebessert. (Strassburg: Hans Schotten zům Thyergarten, [1528]). Hans von Gersdorff was one of the most noted German surgeons o...
In 1527 the mostly Lutheran troups of emperor Charles V attacked and plundered Rome under the eyes of pope Clement VII who had fled to the Castel San'Angelo.
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475 – 1527) was a papal scribe, and type designer. He began his career as a scribe at the Apostolic Chancery in 1515. His La Operina, a 32-page woodblock printing...
Berengario da Carpi, Jacopo. Isagogae breues, perlucidae ac uberrimae, in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam. (Bologna: Beneditcus Hector, 1523). Jacopo Berengario da ...
Robert Estienne (1503-1559), stepson of Simon de Collines and one of the great learned printers of France. He started out on his own in 1524. As a protestant he had to flee France for Geneve in 1550.
The first illustrated edition of Vitriuvius was published in Como in 1521 by Cesare Cesariono
Magellan (1480-1521 sails around the world for the king of Spain. The trip took the sailors three years. Most of the sailors (including Magellan himself who was killed on the Philippines) died.
Luther (1483-1546) nailed his propositions to the churchdoor in 1517. Without the printing press and the intelligent use he made of it protestantism would not have succeeded. He was the first to u...
Sigismondo Fanti: Theorica et practica de modo scribendi fabricandique omnes litterarum species. Venice: Giovanni Rosso,1514. The first edition of the first Italian writing manual.
