Many of the great individual titles of the past two millennia are discussed as well as the range of book types and formats that have emerged in the last few hundred years
Preface by Michel Frizot
an excellent example of the fête galante
“Thorough notes and indexing make these historically significant essays accessible to a new generation of Anglophone readers
as practitioners and theorists continue to debate the relative merits of a rational and minimal architecture versus an architecture rich in ornament and historical references
Holbein: Capturing Character Made in CA Many of the great individualEdited by Anne T. Woollett, with contributions by Austja Mackelait, John T. McQuillen, and others Stunning portraits by the renowned Renaissance artist illuminate fascinating figures from the European merchant class, intellectual elite, and court of King Henry VIII. Nobles, ladies, scholars, and merchants were the subjects of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 981543), an inventive German artist best known for his dazzling portraits. Holbein developed his