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On these it is not worth while to expend a couple of shillings, especially as Elzevirian type is too small to be read with comfort by most modern eyes.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

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 second is a sphere, an ill-cut, ill-drawn sphere, which is not Elzevirian at all.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

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

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

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