Henrik Keyser II

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Henrik Keyser II

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¶ Here are the main pages from Douglas C. McMurtrie's book "The First Swedish Type Specimen", Chicago, 1933. In it, he describes the life of Henrik Keyser II, a historically important Swedish book printer and typographer, who published Sweden's first type specimen book in 1691: "Någre få prooff. Hoos Henrick Keiser Kongl. Maytz: och Upsal. Acad. Booktryckiare Stockholm 1691". Only two copies of this specimen book remain, one in Stockholm, and one in Upsala, where Keiser was the University of Upsala printer. The specimen book shows Fraktur, Schwabacher, music notation, Hebrew, Greek, Cursive, Antiqua, Roamyn and title capitals. Later in his life, Keyser became the royal printer. He died in 1699.

The cover page

Pages 3-7

Pages 10-16

Copyright © 2003 Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
luc@cs.mcgill.ca
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html

	Pictures July 15, 2003 Click on the pictures for enlarged detail. Henrik Keyser II
.....	¶ Here are the main pages from Douglas C. McMurtrie's book "The First Swedish Type Specimen", Chicago, 1933. In it, he describes the life of Henrik Keyser II, a historically important Swedish book printer and typographer, who published Sweden's first type specimen book in 1691: "Någre få prooff. Hoos Henrick Keiser Kongl. Maytz: och Upsal. Acad. Booktryckiare Stockholm 1691". Only two copies of this specimen book remain, one in Stockholm, and one in Upsala, where Keiser was the University of Upsala printer. The specimen book shows Fraktur, Schwabacher, music notation, Hebrew, Greek, Cursive, Antiqua, Roamyn and title capitals. Later in his life, Keyser became the royal printer. He died in 1699.
The cover page
Pages 3-7
Pages 10-16
	Copyright © 2003 Luc Devroye School of Computer Science McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 luc@cs.mcgill.ca http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html