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One has only to look at the common, so-called Elzevirian, volume of thirteenth-century nouvelles to see the Frenchman as he saw himself.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

The volumes of this dainty series, while larger in all but thickness than the "Elzevirs," yet make their appeal by much the same qualities, compactness and portability, with a suggestion of the Elzevirian plumpness.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

The "good dates" of Elzevirian books begin from 1626.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

But there are enormous differences of value, rarity, and excellence among the productions of the Elzevirian press.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

The bookstalls teem with small, "cropped," dingy, dirty, battered Elzevirian editions of the classics, NOT "of the good date."

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew