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The Library 2004 5(2):107-175; doi:10.1093/library/5.2.107
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Robert Estienne's Printing Types

Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

This lengthy article gives an account of Robert I Estienne's stock of type founts, and investigates which type designers and punchcutters may have served under him. It describes and illustrates twenty-nine founts (nine Romans, four Italics, six Greeks, and ten Hebrews) and discusses, in turn, the sources Etienne had available, his acquisition of founts, and the main characteristics of his Romans, Italics, Greeks, and Hebrews. A technical description and tables arranged by type-size and date end the study. Its main conclusions address the (controversial) attribution of the new 1530 Romans and some Italics to Claude Garamont, the use of the Grecs du Roy outside France and Geneva, and the ascription to Jean Arnoul dit Picard of the square Hebrews used by Estienne from mid-1543 onwards


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