Elzevir
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Louis, c1540–1617, Dutch printer: founder of a printing firm at Leyden (1591?) that was operated by his descendants through the 18th century.
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a book produced by this printing house.
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a style of printing type with firm hairlines and stubby serifs.
adjective
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of or relating to the Elzevir family or the books it published.
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indicating the type originated by this family.
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Get an Elzevir Shakspeare if you can afford no other, but purchase the splendid edition by Richard Grant White, if you can.
From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank
It dangles at inaccessible heights; it stares me in the face; it flings the light on the covers of my book but not upon the page—the little French Elzevir I love so well.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry
The text of his New Testament of 1550, either in its original form or in such slightly modified form as it assumed in the Elzevir text of 1634, remains to this day the traditional text.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
A complete catalogue of all the publications of the Elzevir presses.
From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Not a whit cares he What the book may be, Whether missal with glorious show, A folio Shakespeare, Or an Elzevir, Or a Tupper, or E. P. Roe.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving
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