Scope and Contents Contains the papers, research notes, article drafts, and professional correspondence of Kay Amert. The bulk of Amert's research papers focus on the work of Simon de Colines (died 1576), a sixteenth-century Renaissance printer based in Paris, France. The collection includes detailed notes on individual books from the Estienne and Colines presses, especially the types used. The books she studied are housed in various library collections worldwide. This collection also contains the draft of...

Scope and Contents Contains Kay Amert's files on her publications and other academic papers or presentations. These files consist of research notes, drafts, correspondence, printing proofs, and illustrations organized by publication or presentation. These publications include: "Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne," "The Phenomenon of the Gros Canon," "Formation of an Apparatus of Literacy," "Origins of the French Old Style: The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines," "Origins of...

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Contains photographs, negatives, and photocopies of sixteenth-century type fonts taken or ordered by Kay Amert, as well as order forms and correspondence regarding these images. Materials date from between 1995 and 2007.

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Contains Kay Amert's notes on printing marques. These notes largely consist of photocopies of printing marques, organized by style. Styles represented in this series include Soleil d'or, Silhouetted, Lorraine cross, Tory style, and Criblée ground. Materials date from between 1994 and 2005.

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Contains Kay Amert's research notes on Simon de Colines. These notes include chronological lists of publications by Colines, lists of repositories where copies of these publications reside, summaries of pertinent details regarding these publications (such as date, size, illustrations, fonts), diagrams of the layout of some of these publications, and analyses of the type fonts used by Colines. Materials date from between 1995 and 2006.

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Contains lists of sixteenth-century French publications, summaries of pertinent details regarding some of these publications (such as date, size, illustrations, fonts), summaries of sixteenth-century French authors and their works, lists of publications on the history of printing and typography, notes from secondary source publications, and a catalogue for A. Sokol Books. Materials date from between 1987 and 2006.