Description:
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…
Read More No image available
Granjon's Flowers: An Enquiry Into Granjon's, Giolito's, and de Tournes' Ornaments, 1542-1586 Hardcover - 2016
by Hendrik D. Vervliet
Details
- Title Granjon's Flowers: An Enquiry Into Granjon's, Giolito's, and de Tournes' Ornaments, 1542-1586
- Author Hendrik D. Vervliet
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 246
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oak Knoll Press, Delaware
- Date 2016
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781584563556 / 1584563559
- Library of Congress subjects Type ornaments, Printers' ornaments
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016039321
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.224
More Copies for Sale
More Photos
GRANJON'S FLOWERS: AN ENQUIRY INTO GRANJON'S, GIOLITO'S, AND DE TOURNES' ORNAMENTS, 1542-1586
by Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781584563556 / 1584563559
- Quantity Available
- 387
- Seller
-
New Castle, Delaware, United States
- Item Price
-
£51.77£6.77 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
£51.77
£6.77
shipping to USA
Granjon's Flowers: An Enquiry into Granjon's, Giolito's, and De Tournes' Ornaments: 1542-86
by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781584563556 / 1584563559
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
£120.85FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Item Price
£120.85
FREE shipping to USA