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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Allan Fleming
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
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A detailed biography of Bigot, who was an outstanding classical scholar and bibliographical expert. The book is based on unpublished material from France, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and England, and makes, use of Bigot’s correspondence to examine thoroughly his publications and projects for publication, as well as his collaboration with other authors in seventeenth-century Europe. Bigot is presented for the first time in full perspective for scholars and other interested readers.
Designer’s Comments: The resurrection of a little-known scholar gives the opportunity to reflect his period typographically. The mixture of languages enabled me to use Monotype Bembo, which maintained the dignity of the text throughout the complex appendix and bibliography. It was great fun to find contemporary initials and vignettes and to be able to use quarter-binding.