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Martin Lowry has already distinguished himself as an expert of early Venetian printing by his work on Aldus Manutius, whose press produced some of the foremost classical texts during the latter part of the Renaissance. This tirne he ventures into more treacherous terrain in attempting to reconstruct the world of Nicholas Jenson, who died in 1480, about a decade before the arrival of Aldus in Venice. Jenson, a forgotten figure for more than four centuries, had his reputation restored in the nineteenth century by the British artist and designer William Morris, who popularized his roman typeface. But the problem Lowry faced was that very little is known with certainty about his principal character, apart from his French origin. …
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