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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 192
ently avoideddating or even signing their books, for reasons easily understood.Publishing numerous works, they were afraid of compromisingthemselves in the eyes of the powerful, and they let them goforth without any trade mark. These artists in typography were,besides, the most prudent and subtle… … Fig 105.—Mark of Bonaventiire and Abraham Elzevir,printers at Leyden, 1620. themselves honour and profit without having done anythingmore than seizing their opportunity. Using, as they did, thecharacters of Claude Garamond, of Jacques Sanlecques, andthe paper of Angoulême, M. Didot thence claims…
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