Use the “advanced search” option within Google Books and type in “bembo colophon”:

http://books.google.com/books?q=bembo+colophon&lr=&as_brr=0&sa=N&start=0

Starting on the second page of the above results, you will start to see some colophons that actually mention Bembo as the text face used.

> trouble is, i don’t know of that many.

E.g., this big German publishing house

http://rsw.beck.de/rsw/default.asp

has thousands of voluminous law books typeset in Bembo.

Sample pages are downloadable as pdf files, e.g. here:

http://www.beck-shop.de/downloads/INH_PalandtBGBKuKo7_67.%20A.pdf

Translating Montreal by Sherry Simon is set in Bembo Pro.

La memoria vegetale e altri scritti di bibliofilia by Umberto Eco is a recently published limited edition book set in metal Bembo. It’s not very expensive at €28,00 but it’s in Italian.

De Aetna by Pietro Bembo is a not-so-recently published limited edition book set in metal Bembo. It’s quite expensive and it’s in Latin.

[Sorry, couldn’t resist ;°)]

The Collected Works of GK Chesterton, as published by Ignatius Press, use Bembo as their main typeface.

Florian: that’s not quite accurate but I won’t bite this time ;-)

You’re in New York—get the AIGA to put you in touch with some killer book designers who can show you some of their hottest stuff set in Bembo.

Gawd I used to use Bembo all the time, not as much recently. Here’s one though:

http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Countess-Extraordinary-Matilda-Canossa/dp/0...

I’ll see if I can think of more. I designed a lot of art books on Italian Renaissance artists and Bembo was very apropos.

Hey Annemieke,
photographer Sascha Weidner uses Bembo for his booklet ‘Enduring Beauty’ — PDF [3mb]
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Livingston, A. and I. Livingston (1992). The Thames and Hudson encyclopedia of graphic design and designers. London, Thames and Hudson.

Google this:

cambridge university press system latex typeface bembo

(no “”)

You’ll get quite a few.

All the books written and produced by information guru Ed Tufte have been set in Bembo, from hot-metal to digital versions.

These should be in many good public / university libraries.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Beautiful Evidence
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

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I just finished page design and layout on a book a month or two back in which I used Bembo for the main body text. The book is called See Poverty ... Be the Difference. It’s a new printing of almost exactly the same book; and because there’s no substantial change, they decided not to call it “2nd edition”. It should be heading to the printer any day now. It’s to be published by the organization Communication Across Barriers, out of Oregon.

The original book, which may or may not still be available, is a spiral-bound affair that does not use Bembo; so you’re not interested in that version. But the new is to be perfect-bound and, I said, should—hopefully—be going to press momentarily. The hold-up is a problem with some art throughout the book, which their printer tells them is “too dark.” So they’re having the artist who created all this art for the first book, and which they reused for the second, look into it.

Which version of Bembo? I always think of it as being too spindly. At what point size do you, any of you, use Bembo?

In the book I mentioned above, I used a Postscript 1 version of Bembo from Adobe, complete with an Expert set, that I’d had for years. I used it at 11 point, on a 20% leading of 13.2 points. I like it’s richness, particularly the Old style characteristic of a minimal contrast between thick and thin strokes,

thanks a bazillion. especially to florian who suggested da aetna. they sell that at barnes and noble, right?

but really, thanks. its like an early christmas up in here what with all the giving.

Tiffany might be fishing for:

Bembo Book, a new Bembo version by Robin Nicholas; it is based on a smaller metal master, so the x-height is smaller, but everything has been beefed up, so it’s simultaneously more elegant and evocative of metal, and robust and clear. Very nice for offset.

Yeah. I was wondering if anyone was using that or something else. Like I said, I just think it is too squat and spindly to work unless at a larger point size.