Figure 308
Page of Signora Bodoni’s Discorso: Manuale Tipografico, Parma
From Library of Congress (scan)
1818
The second and final edition of Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico—in two quarto volumes, with a Discorso by his widow…by Bodoni—appeared in 1818, five years after his death. It was completed under the care of his widow and Luigi Orsi, who was for twenty years foreman to Bodoni.