The palaeotypography of the French Renaissance : : selected papers on sixteenth-century typefaces, volume I / / Hendrik D.L. Vervliet.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, v. 6
• Author: Vervliet, Hendrik D. L.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; 6.; Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Introduction / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Early Sixteenth-Century Parisian Roman Types / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Simon De Colines, Punchcutter; 1518–1546 / H.D.L. Vervliet -- The Printing Types Of The Young Robert I Estienne; 1526–1530 / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Robert Estienne’S Printing Types / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Garamont’S Canons: Roman Type Design In Sixteenth-Century France / H.D.L. Vervliet -- The Young Garamont: Roman Types Made In Paris In The 1530s / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Roman Types / Robert Granjon -- Printing Types Of Pierre Haultin; C. 1510–1587 / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Preliminary Material / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Early Paris Italics; 1512–1549 / H.D.L. Vervliet -- The Italics Of Robert Granjon / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Greek Typefaces Of The Early French Renaissance: The Predecessors Of The Grecs Du Roy / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Greek Printing Types Of The French Renaissance: The ‘Grecs Du Roy’ And Their Successors / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Cyrillic and Oriental Typography In Rome At The End Of The Sixteenth Century: An Inquiry Into The Later Work Of Robert Granjon; 1578–1590 / H.D.L. Vervliet -- List Of Typefaces Cited Or Discussed / H.D.L. Vervliet -- References / H.D.L. Vervliet -- Index / H.D.L. Vervliet.