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Article: John Lane. Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Annotated Descriptions of the Specimens to ca. 1850 (Mostly from the Low Countries and France) with Preliminary Notes on the Typefoundaries and Printing Offices.(Book review)
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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- September 22, 2005
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John Lane. Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Annotated Descriptions of the Specimens to ca. 1850 (Mostly from the Low Countries and France) with Preliminary Notes on the Typefoundaries and Printing Offices. New Castle, Del.; Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004. 352 pp. US $95.00/UK 55.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1584561394.
Christophe Plantin, who was born and trained in France, moved in 1548 to Antwerp, where he started a small business binding books and making the leather-covered boxes once beloved by northern Europeans. He established his own printing works and publishing house in 1555. Two sons-in-law, Jan Moerentorf (latinized as ...