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GAUTIER DE CHÂTILLON, Philipp (fl. 1170-1180). Alexandreidos libri decem. Lyons: Robert Granjon, 1558.
4o (186 x 131 mm). Printed entirely in Granjon's small civilité type, with marginalia in the same font; Granjon's woodcut device on title (Baudrier 3). (Some minor dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties). Provenance: early notes on front flyleaf and some margins; acquired from John Fleming, 1966.
FIRST GRANJON EDITION, AND THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN HIS CIVILITÉ TYPE. Granjon was a Parisian printer and type-cutter who settled in Lyons around the time this work was printed. The completely new and individual type face he designed was based on French renaissance cursive script. Granjon first used the type in 1557 for an edition of the Dialogue de la vie et de la mort translated by Jean Louveau from the Italian of Ringhieri. The text in this work is an epic poem on Alexander the Great originally written in the second half of the twelfth century. "Extreme care was taken by Granjon in the printing of these texts, and the result is a page closely approximating the manuscript...Granjon, the son-in-law of the artist Bernard Salomon, was associated also with Jean de Tournes and designed and cut some exceptionally fine italic types for de Tourne's use" (Mortimer). The preface on *2r contains a royal privilege granted to Granjon on 26 December 1557 forbidding imitations of his lettre françoise d'art de main for ten years. Baudrier II:60-61; Carter & Vervliet 6; Mortimer French 261.
4o (186 x 131 mm). Printed entirely in Granjon's small civilité type, with marginalia in the same font; Granjon's woodcut device on title (Baudrier 3). (Some minor dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties). Provenance: early notes on front flyleaf and some margins; acquired from John Fleming, 1966.
FIRST GRANJON EDITION, AND THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN HIS CIVILITÉ TYPE. Granjon was a Parisian printer and type-cutter who settled in Lyons around the time this work was printed. The completely new and individual type face he designed was based on French renaissance cursive script. Granjon first used the type in 1557 for an edition of the Dialogue de la vie et de la mort translated by Jean Louveau from the Italian of Ringhieri. The text in this work is an epic poem on Alexander the Great originally written in the second half of the twelfth century. "Extreme care was taken by Granjon in the printing of these texts, and the result is a page closely approximating the manuscript...Granjon, the son-in-law of the artist Bernard Salomon, was associated also with Jean de Tournes and designed and cut some exceptionally fine italic types for de Tourne's use" (Mortimer). The preface on *2r contains a royal privilege granted to Granjon on 26 December 1557 forbidding imitations of his lettre françoise d'art de main for ten years. Baudrier II:60-61; Carter & Vervliet 6; Mortimer French 261.