Erhard Ratdolt
Erhard Ratdolt | |
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 A page with marginalia from Ratdolt's 1482 printing of Euclid's Elements | |
| Born | 1442 |
| Died | 1528 |
| Occupation | printer |
| Known for | introducing title pages, discovering how to print geometric diagrams |
| Notable work | Calendarium Historia Romana Poeticon astronomicon |
Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528) was an early German printer from Augsburg.[1] He was active as a printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486, and afterwards in Augsburg. From 1475[1] to 1478 he was in partnership with two other German printers.[1]
The first book the partnership produced was the Calendarium (1476), written and previously published by
Alchabitius (1503). Ratdolt is also famous for having produced the first known printer's type specimen book (in this instance a broadsheet displaying the fonts with which he might print).[3]
His innovations of layout and typography, mixing type and woodcuts, have subsequently been much admired. His graphic choices and technical solutions influenced also those of William Morris.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "Flowers of Abu Ma'shar". World Digital Library. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
- ^ "Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars". World Digital Library. 1523. Retrieved 2013-07-14.
- ISBN 978-1-151-43738-9.
- ^ "Erhard Ratdolt." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 6 Oct. 2011. .
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Erhard Ratdolt.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Ratdolt (see index)
- Erhard Ratdolt - first publisher of Euclid
- G. R. Redgrave: Erhard Ratdolt and his work at Venice. London, 1894
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