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  • Regnart announced on all the title-pages that they were ‘in the style of napolitane or Italian villanellas’.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • He inscribed his name on their title-pages in his elegant hand; he also habitually marked and annotated them.

    'Built of Books' 2009

  • On the other hand the title-pages of prints such as the Libro quarto de madrigali for five voices of 1567 referred to him as maestro di cappella of the Bavarian court.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Vannes stated that he was a choirboy at Arras Cathedral in 1525; most other facts about his early life are drawn from the title-pages of his five important publications: he was director of the choir at Tours Cathedral in 1539, master of the choirboys at Tournai Cathedral in 1545 and maître de chapelle there later that year.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • After Estellina Conat, there were at least fifty-four other Jewish women printers whose names were on colophons or title-pages up to the 1920s and there have been many since.

    Printers. 2009

  • In later years, after Amorach's death, the marked advance in the outcome of the firm as regards type and paper and title-pages and designs may be attributed to Froben, who was man of business enough to realize the importance of getting good men to serve him--Erasmus to edit books, Gerbell and Oecolampadius to correct the proofs, Graf and Holbein to provide the ornaments.to the pulpish

    How to Edit, Chains, Flatland Lemon Hound 2008

  • In later years, after Amorach's death, the marked advance in the outcome of the firm as regards type and paper and title-pages and designs may be attributed to Froben, who was man of business enough to realize the importance of getting good men to serve him--Erasmus to edit books, Gerbell and Oecolampadius to correct the proofs, Graf and Holbein to provide the ornaments.to the pulpish

    Archive 2008-05-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Following Russian custom, he used "Count" on the title-pages of his books up to his death in 1910.

    The Tolstoys at Home Nikolai Tolstoy 2007

  • "[E] xtensive knowledge of title-pages, editions, and dates," he announced in an essay on "Bibliothecae," "excited not only my wonder, but, may I add, my disgust!"

    Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004

  • Monthly Review deplores the "extravagant value" placed on "the petty and insignificant knowledge of title-pages" and places the bibliographer

    Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004

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