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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.

Book history --- anno 1500-1599 --- France --- 655.24 <44> --- Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- Type and type-founding --- Type designers --- History --- Type and type-founding -- France -- History -- 16th century. --- Type and type-founding -- France -- Specimens. --- Type designers -- France -- History -- 16th century. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Book Studies & Arts --- Designers --- Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Printing --- Typesetting --- Letters. --- Typografie. --- Frankrijk.