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Renaissance Printers’ Devices: Essays on the Early Art of Printing and the King Memorial Windows of Johns Hopkins University

Renaissance Printers’ Devices: Essays on the Early Art of Printing and the King Memorial Windows of Johns Hopkins University

The Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room is one of the most beloved places on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus. The reading room features 19 monumental stained glass windows designed in 1929 by the American artist J. Scott Williams. Each window bears the emblematic device of an influential Renaissance printer. In this handsomely illustrated volume, Renaissance scholar and rare book curator Earle Havens explores the history of printing in early modern Europe through original essays addressing the careers of each of these printers, the iconography of their devices, and the pioneering books they produced.