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Elzevir Trivia and not so Trivia (985 words) |
 | The ELZEVIRs are credited with giving their name to a typeface which is still listed in the catalogues of some type foundries to this day and is defined by some as a variation of Garamond. |
| But scholarly opinions differ as to whether a true ELZEVIR typeface can be identified or definitively attributed to VAN DYCK; and bearing in mind that many of the books sold under their imprint were produced for them by other Dutch printers it is hard to say what distinguishes an ELZEVIR edition typographically from its contemporaries. |
| The ELZEVIR Non Solus is among the printers' marks which embellish the upper walls of all four corridors on the second floor of the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. |
| The early Elzevirs (988 words) |
| The most successful were the partnership of Bonaventura and Abraham ELZEVIR (uncle and nephew) in Leiden, which took over the printing presses of Abraham's brother Isaac; and the Amsterdam concern of Bonaventura's son Daniel. |
| The ELZEVIR concern flourished during the thirty-year partnership of Abraham and Bonaventura and from 1926 onwards was strengthened further when another son of Mathijs, Isaac, turned over to them his printing works. |
| For nearly 160 years the ELZEVIR name disappeared from the European publishing scene until it was revived in 1880 by Jacobus George ROBBERS and others who established the firm N.V. Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier in Rotterdam, which was to grow into the present-day global Elsevier concern. |
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