The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon
Subtitle: Paris & Sedan, designer & engraver of the caractères de l'Université now owned by the Imprimerie nationale, Paris
By: edited in facsimile, with an introduction by Paul Beaujon [pseud.].
Publisher: Maggs Bros.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Printing; Specimens; Type and type-founding; Imprimerie nationale (France)
Notes: Label on cover and half-title: The type specimen of Jean Jannon ...

The facsimile has title: Esprevve des caracteres novvellement taillez. [Printer's device]. A Sedan, Par Iean Iannon, Imprimeur de l'Academie, M.DC.XXI.

"Evidence to show that "Garamond" ... is not ... a sixteenth-century design but rather a seventeenth-century development of the French renaissance letter ... cut     by a ... printer-founder in Sedan [Jean Janon]"--p. 8.

"One hundred and fifty copies printed at the Chiswick Press, London, May 1927."

Lepreux, sér. départementale, II, 19 Copy 1

363617A Copy 1.

No acc. Copy 2.