From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed

From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed

From the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them, undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed

First Greek Testament printed by Robert Estienne, and the first use of Claude Garamond’s second font of the “grecs du roi”. The first of the two ‘O mirificam’ editions (the second dates to 1549) known as such because of the dedication to Francis I, praising the King for commissioning the smaller type so that pocket editons could be printed in Greek. The support and protection of Francis I was vital, particularly when it came to printing the Bible in Greek, an activity regarded with extreme suspicion by the Catholic censors at the Sorbonne. Fortunately for Estienne, Francis himself initiated a programme of printing in Greek to display French scholarly and technical expertise, and the device of King’s printer in Greek on the title page was a powerful shield. Printing the folio Greek Testament in 1550, by which time a new king, Henri II, was on the throne, precipitated Estienne’s departure for Protestant Geneva., Schreiber 90; Darlow & Moule 4616; Renouard 65, 2.

The quarto and octavo Greek New Testaments of 1763 printed by Baskerville for the Oxford University Press are ‘beautiful editions’, according to Dibdin, and the only books printed by Baskerville in Greek. The text generally follows John Mill’s famous edition of 1707. The type itself is described by Dibdin as “large and distinct” and “elegant”. Baskerville was clearly influenced by Alexander Wilson’s revolutionary Double Pica Greek type, which had been specially cut for the Foulis Press Homer of 1756-58. Both type founders rejected the space-saving contractions and ligatures which had been faithfully preserved from an earlier era in Claude Garammond’s Grec du Roi and its descendants. Baskerville’s Greek type probably had some influence on Bodoni and Didot, but it was not revived., Gaskell Add. 2; Darlow & Moule 4756; Dibdin I, 157.

Ludolph Kuster’s revision of Mill’s celebrated edition of 1707, “enriched with the various readings of twelve addtional manuscripts” (Dibdin) and first issued in 1710. The second edition of 1723 differs only in the setting of the title-page., Darlow & Moule 4735; Dibdin I, 147.