Giambattista Bodoni: Biografia

A concise biography of one of the most prolific type makers and printers of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here is Bodoni’s life in brief, year by year, in which his reputation as the “Printer of Kings and King of Printers” is illuminated.


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