Maybe the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University? When I was at RISD, we used to see books there all the time, and they had an extensive collection. Maybe being so close to an art school will make them more liberal with photographs.

I will check with the John Carter Brown Library. Thanks, Dan. And yes, Tiffany, I checked Octavo. They have some wonderful stuff, but their catalogue is not very extensive yet.

The only good repro I have of Jenson is from Gaskell's photographic enlargements article.

http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/48532.html

If you got the dough, maybe buy an actual Jenson!!

hhp

A woman pressing Chianti with her feet, haha.

Buy an ACTUAL Jenson?! I'd give my firstborn child (if I had one, which I don't) for one. I suggested to the University of Liverpool that they should make and market a digital copy of theirs, but they apparently have only one staff photographer, and she is busy with other projects at the moment.

"there's an article that might interest you: it's called "Photographic Enlargements of Type Forms" by Philip Gaskell, in the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, #7, 1971, pp 51-53, with 12 plates. One of the plates is from the De Evangelica of 1470; it shows about 60 letters, at just over 1" em height. Want a scan? "

Do you have a scan available? I'd love to see that, but I don't want to put you out.

> Do you have a scan available?

That link in that thread is it:
(1Mb) http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/Jenson1470.gif

hhp

Ah, I overlooked that. Thanks.