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Erhard Ratdolt

Bavarian printer (1442–1528)

Field	Value
name	Erhard Ratdolt
image	Euclid's Elements, 1482.jpg
caption	A page with marginalia from Ratdolt's 1482 printing of Euclid's Elements
birth_date	1442
death_date	1528
occupation	printer
known_for	introducing title pages, discovering how to print geometric diagrams

Calendarium

Historia Romana

Euclid's Elements

Poeticon astronomicon

Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528) was an early German printer from Augsburg. He was active as a printer in Venice from 1476 to 1486, and afterwards in Augsburg. From 1475 to 1478 he was in partnership with two other German printers.

The first book the partnership produced was the Calendarium (1476), written and previously published by Regiomontanus, which offered one of the earliest examples of a modern title page. Other noteworthy publications are the Historia Romana of Appianus (1477), and the first edition of Euclid's Elements (1482), where he solved the problem of printing geometric diagrams, the Poeticon astronomicon, also from 1482, Haly Abenragel (1485), and Alchabitius (1503). Ratdolt is also famous for having produced the first known printer's type specimen book (in this instance a broadsheet displaying the fonts with which he might print).

His innovations of layout and typography, mixing type and woodcuts, have subsequently been much admired. His graphic choices and technical solutions influenced also those of William Morris."Erhard Ratdolt." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 6 Oct. 2011. .

References

"Flowers of Abu Ma'shar". [[World Digital Library]].
(1523). "Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars".
Updike, Daniel Berkeley. (2009). "Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use". General Books.

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