La Estrella del Sur: muestrario tipográfico rioplatense. Tipografía inglesa en Buenos Aires colonial
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Typography, printing house, editions, descriptive bibliographyAbstract
The present article focuses on the identification of the typeface that arrived at Imprenta de Niños Expósitos in Buenos Aires from Montevideo in 1807 and gives a comparative analysis between inventories, original printed texts (several from the Treasury Library of the National University of La Plata) and English typographical samples. The newspaper La Estrella del Sur, an exemplar of the journalism and the graphic arts in our region, and which was edited during the Second British Invasion, becomes a real collection of font samples and serves as a model for the study of the typography used in both sides of the Río de La Plata. It was cut by punchcutters as renowned as Richard T. Austin and distributed by important foundries such as British Letter Foundry.Downloads
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