Overview

This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. Typefaces developed during this period were to influence decisively the typography of the centuries which followed, and they continue to influence a great many contemporary typefaces. The papers' common goal is to establish the paternity of the typefaces described and critically to appraise their attributions, many of which have previously been inadequately ascribed. Such an approach will be of interest to type historians and type designers seeking better-documented attributions, and to historians, philologists, and bibliographers, whose study of historical imprints will benefit from more accurate type descriptions. The papers and illustrations focus on the most important letter-cutters of the French Renaissance, including Simon de Colines, Robert Estienne, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, Pierre Haultin, and also include a number of minor masters of the period.

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Author:   Hendrik Vervliet
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   2.612kg
ISBN:  

9789004169821

ISBN 10:   9004169822
Pages:   580
Publication Date:   27 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Leather / fine binding
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

VOLUME I Preface Introduction Abbreviations and Conventional Signs Old English and French Names for Body Sizes Early Sixteenth-Century Parisian Roman Types Conspectus of Types Table 1: Roman Types by Body Size Simon de Colines, Punchcutter; 1518-1546 Conspectus of Types Table 1: Colines's Types by Letter Family and Size The Printing Types of the Young Robert I Estienne; 1526-1530 Robert Estienne's Printing Types Conspectus of Types Table 1: Estienne's Types by Family and Body Size Table 2: Estienne's Types by Year of First Occurrence Garamont's Canons: Roman Type Design in Sixteenth-Century France The Young Garamont: Roman Types Made in Paris in the 1530s Conspectus of Types Table 1: Types in Order of First Occurrence Table 2: Types Classified by Punchcutter Roman Types by Robert Granjon Conspectus of Types Table 1: Granjon's Romans by Date Table 2: Granjon's Romans by Body Size Printing Types of Pierre Haultin; c. 1510-1587 Conspectus of Types Table 1: Haultin's Typefaces in Order of Date and Place of First Appearance VOLUME II Early Paris Italics; 1512-1549 Conspectus of Types Table 1: Types by Body Size The Italics of Robert Granjon Conspectus of Types Table 1: Granjon's Italics by Style Table 2: Granjon's Italics by Body Size Greek Typefaces of the Early French Renaissance: The Predecessors of the Grecs du Roy Conspectus of Types Greek Printing Types of the French Renaissance: The 'Grecs du Roy' and Their Successors Conspectus of Types Table 1: Greek Types by Body Size Table 2: Greek Types by Date of First Appearance Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century: An Inquiry into the Later Work of Robert Granjon; 1578-1590 Conspectus of Types Table 1: Types in Order of First Occurrence List of Typefaces Cited or Discussed References Index

Reviews

""There is no other comparable corpus of material on the subject."" Stephen Rawles, University of Glasgow H-France Review, vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 98. ""Vervliet's Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance provides an extraordinary wealth of information for students of the history of printing types, bibliographers attempting to date, localize or identify the printers of books or ephemera, designers seeking historical models for inspiration, typophiles taking pleasure in the beauty and functional quality of letterforms, and economic and cultural historians trying to understand the manufacture and distribution of printing types, so intimately bound to the intellectual, political, religious and economic development of the western world. It [...] demands the revision of every general history of printing types that has ever been written. John A. Lane. In: De Gulden Passer, No. 87, Issue 2 (2009).

There is no other comparable corpus of material on the subject. Stephen Rawles, University of Glasgow H-France Review, vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 98. Vervliet's Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance provides an extraordinary wealth of information for students of the history of printing types, bibliographers attempting to date, localize or identify the printers of books or ephemera, designers seeking historical models for inspiration, typophiles taking pleasure in the beauty and functional quality of letterforms, and economic and cultural historians trying to understand the manufacture and distribution of printing types, so intimately bound to the intellectual, political, religious and economic development of the western world. It [...] demands the revision of every general history of printing types that has ever been written. John A. Lane. In: De Gulden Passer, No. 87, Issue 2 (2009).

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Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Ph.D in Philology (1955), University of Leuven, was formerly Librarian at the University of Antwerp and Professor of Book History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published a number of works on humanism, bibliography and book history.

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