Nicolaus Jenson
Nicolaus Jenson (1420-1480), punchcutter-printer, set up shop in Venice, where he perfected the design of the roman type face. French by birth. he probably studied in Mainz, the city of Gutenberg, and eventually established himself at Venice in 1470. He published more than seventy books between 1470 and 1480, mostly Latin and Greek classics. His work has inspired generations of printers, especially those involved in the nineteenth-century revival of fine printing. The device shown was used by his successors; however, it is based on the orb and cross motif of his sometime partner, Johann of Cologne.