The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon
Paris & Sedan, designer & engraver of the caractères de l'Université now owned by the Imprimerie nationale, Paris
by Jean Jannon
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Label on cover and half-title: The type specimen of Jean Jannon ...
"One hundred and fifty copies printed at the Chiswick press, London, May 1927."
"Evidence to show that 'Garamond' ... is not ... a sixteenth-century design but rather a seventeenth century development of the French renaissance letter ... cut by a ... printer founder in Sedan [Jean Jannon]"--p. 8.
The facsimile has title: Esprevve des caractères novvellement taillez. [Printer's device] À Sédan, par Iean Iannon Imprimeur de l'Académie. M.DC.XXI.
Rare Book copy: No. 3. Inscribed "To Henry Lewis Bullen from his admiring disciple "Paul Beaujon" (Beatrice Warde)."
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