Dürer’s 1511 Drawing of a Press and Printer sawbucks (where Boston is)

(where Boston is)

printing history

down the street from Harvard and MIT)

See what you missed so you can be prepared for the next Zapf-related exhibition

Looks like good and interesting and boundary-pushing stuff

Dürer’s 1511 Drawing of a Press and Printer sawbucks (where Boston is)Albrecht Drer had his finger on the pulse. Just a few short decades after Gutenberg did his thing, Drer was making plans for pressrooms. His lovely drawing is reproduced here via collotype and is accompanied by an essay by Ray Nash. Is this much ado about nothing? Perhaps. But its a beautiful piece of New England printing. And its interesting. And there were only 550 copies printed. Collect them all by starting with this one.