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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.

Granjon, Robert, --- Grandjon, Robert, --- Granion, R. --- lettertypen --- Granjon, Robert --- Type and type-founding --- Type ornaments --- Type designers --- Printers --- History --- typefaces [type forms] --- 655.24 <44> --- 655.24 <44> Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- 655.24 <44> Type styles. Characters--Frankrijk --- Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- Type styles. Characters--Frankrijk --- Type and type-founding - France - History - 16th century --- Type ornaments - Specimens --- Type designers - France - Biography --- Printers - France - Biography --- Granjon, Robert, - active 1523-1588 - Catalogues raisonnés --- Granjon, Robert, - active 1523-1588

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"A survey of all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century, describing the evolution of type-casting and letter-engraving and the methodology used. Illustrated with facsimiles of 409 typefaces with detailed descriptions including their first appearance in books or type specimens"--Provided by publisher.

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 --- History --- Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Printing --- Typesetting --- Boekgeschiedenis --- Frankrijk

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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.

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Book history --- type [composition equipment] --- typographic techniques --- letterers --- anno 1700-1799 --- Type and type-founding --- Specimens --- Early works to 1800 --- 655.24 <44> --- -Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Printing --- Typesetting --- Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- -Early works to 1800 --- -Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- Fonts (Printing) --- Specimens&delete& --- Type and type-founding - France - Specimens - Early works to 1800 --- Fournier, Simon-Pierre

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Type and type-founding --- Type designers --- Engravers --- History --- Fournier, Pierre Simon, --- 655.24 <44> --- -Type designers --- -Type and type-founding --- -Fonts (Printing) --- Founts (Printing) --- Metal types --- Type faces --- Typefaces --- Founding --- Printing --- Typesetting --- Designers --- Metal engravers --- Artists --- Printmakers --- Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- -Fournier, Pierre Simon --- -Lettertypes. Lettersoorten--algemeen - niet verwarren met schrift; z.o. {003} en {681.615}--Frankrijk --- Fonts (Printing) --- Fournier le jeune --- Fournier, Pierre-Simon --- Type and type-founding - France - History - 18th century --- Type designers - France - Biography --- Engravers - France - Biography --- #X-L: Casterman --- Fournier, Pierre Simon, - 1712-1768 --- Fournier, Pierre Simon, 1712-1768