Granjon's Flowers: An Enquiry Into Granjon's, Giolito's, and de Tournes' Ornaments, 1542-1586 Tapa dura - 2016

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. hardcover, dust jacket. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 248 pages. "Overall, an astonishing achievement from a scholar with an unerring eye for the minutiae of typgraphical identification, this is a volume that will long remain useful for printing historians." -- David Shaw, The Library, June 2018 "Nobody is better qualified than Hendrik Vervliet... to establish which of these ornaments are by Granjon, and to say when and where they were used. ... Definitive." -- James Mosely, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Robert Granjon (1513-1590) was a younger contemporary of Claude Garamont (c.1510-1561) and with him one of the great names in the history of type-design. His typefaces have been studied in some depth, but except for a dozen combinable type-ornaments surveyed by the author previously, his printers' flowers, however elegant and innovative, have attracted only cursory attention in such broader works as Morison's on the… Leer más

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 246pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Green cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Robert Granjon (1513-1590) was a younger contemporary of Claude Garamont (c.1510-1561) and with him one of the great names in the history of type-design. His typefaces have been studied in some depth, but except for a dozen combinable type-ornaments surveyed by the author previously, his printers' flowers, however elegant and innovative, have attracted only cursory attention in such broader works as Morison's on the 'Fell' types (1967). "This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, examines which 'printer's flowers' -- alternative terms are fleurons or type-ornaments -- may be attributed to Granjon. Building on earlier researches into sixteenth-century vine leaves and Granjon's combinable ornaments (2012; 2015), the author describes one hundred and three ornaments with first appearances during Granjon's active life, either in his own publications and… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.