Giambattista Bodoni

(1740-1813)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813 LBT ID: GiBodon1813 VIAF ID: 44331011 LOC ID: n50010063	B/BAP: 1740-02-16 DIED: 1813-12-29
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Italian printer who designed the neoclassical typeface that bears his name; he published Manuale tipografico (1788).
REFERENCES TO Giambattista Bodoni: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 3 March 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Samuel Rogers, 18 August [1809] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIX. 1825-1827 Found 1: ¶ 41 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1806 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1805-1809.