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Elzevir: Mac McGrew
Mac McGrew on the Elzevir style: Elzevir types are named for the most prominent family of seventeenth-century Dutch printers, who developed slender types for use in a series of small books which they popularized. The present-day Elzevir types are based on revivals of types brought out in the 1870s by Gustave Mayeur of Paris, and are commonly known also as French Oldstyle (q. v.) or French Cadmus. They were popular in the late nineteenth century and have had some popularity in this century, especially for text use when Elzevir No.3 was revised under the direction of E. Bartlett in 1919 for Linotype. The style is weak for display though. Linotype Elzevir No.2 is entirely different, being a copy of Schaeffer Oldstyle (q.v.), an 1898 ATF design. |
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