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ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

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ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

by Vervliet, Hendrik D.L

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. "For anyone interested in Granjon and sixteenth-century type-founding, this is an excellent place to start. A concise and clear biography, several themed lists and indexes, and a series of well-printed facsimiles, provide the essential underpinning for such study, while committed readers will also need to have beside them the earlier and more specialist work by Vervliet and others."

- David McKitterick, The Book Collector



This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, is a survey of the life and work of the sixteenth-century letter-cutter Robert Granjon (1513-1590). With his contemporary Claude Garamont, he is considered one of the best and most influential figures in the history of type design.



Vervliet begins with a biography, recounting Granjon's career as a punchcutter and publisher during periods in Paris, Lyons, Antwerp, and Rome. A freelance craftsman, Granjon wandering throughout Europe in search of markets in which to earn his livelihood selling sets of matrices of his founts.



Granjon's most durable contributions are his Italics, his Flowers, his Civilités (a new rendering of the old French Bastarda letter), and his Slavic and Oriental founts, whose elegance equals the calligraphy of the best manuscripts. The author devotes several chapters to chronologies of Granjon's publications and founts, and to classifications of his types. The final long chapter consists of facsimile reproductions of Granjon's types, including Arabic, Armenian, Civilité, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Italic, Music, Phonetic, Roman, and Syriac founts, as well as Script initials, Flowers, and Varia.



Primarily intended as a tool, this work aims for completeness and reliability of attributions, and it will be of great interest to book and type historians. Design and typography by Alastair Johnston.



Hendrik Vervliet worked until 1968 at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp. From 1969 onwards he served as Librarian of the University of Antwerp. He held the Professorship of Book History at the University of Amsterdam from 1974 up to his retirement in 1990. In 2011 he was honored with the Individual Laureate Award by the American Printing History Association.

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Title
ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE
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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L
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New Castle, Delaware
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2018
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