Granjon’s Flowers: An Enquiry into Granjon’s, Giolito’s, and de Tournes’ Ornaments, 1542–1586. By Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

Abstract

Hendrik Vervliet has been writing on european printing types for over fifty years, since working on type specimens with Harry Carter and John Dreyfus in the 1960s. His book on Civilité Types, co-authored by Harry Carter (Oxford Biblio graphical Society, 1966), was a model investigation into the origins and distribution of one of the distinctive vernacular faces of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (Amsterdam, 1968) examined a wide range of surviving typographical material in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp and its contemporary distribution throughout Europe, providing a methodology for recording printing types in their historical perspective. The Bibliographical Society has been the vehicle for some of his publications, including an article on ‘Robert Estienne’s Printing Types’ (The Library, v, 2 (2004), 107-75) and a substantial monograph on French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectus (2010). A collection of his articles entitled The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces was reviewed by James Mosley (The Library, xii, 2 (2011), 175-78).