An edition of The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon (1927)

The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon

Paris & Sedan, designer & engraver of the caractères de l'Université now owned by the Imprimerie nationale, Paris

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An edition of The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon (1927)

The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon

Paris & Sedan, designer & engraver of the caractères de l'Université now owned by the Imprimerie nationale, Paris

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Publisher
Maggs Bros.
Language
English
Pages
17

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Edition Notes

Label on cover and half-title: The type specimen of Jean Jannon ...

The facsimile has title: Esprevve des caracteres novvellement taillez. [Printer's device]. A Sedan, Par Iean Iannon, Imprimeur de l'Academie, M.DC.XXI.

"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 Janon]"--p. 8.

"One hundred and fifty copies printed at the Chiswick Press, London, May 1927."

Lepreux, sér. départementale, II, 19 Copy 1

363617A Copy 1.

No acc. Copy 2.

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London

The Physical Object

Pagination
17 p., pl., 1 l.
Number of pages
17

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL52293698M
OCLC/WorldCat
6440647

Source records

marc_columbia MARC record

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