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.]
Contributors: Warde, Beatrice, 1900-1969; Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938, former owner; Chiswick Press
Publisher: H. Champion
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Paris
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 ...

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

"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 Jannon]"--p. 8.

The facsimile has title: Esprevve des caractères novvellement taillez. [Printer's device] À Sédan, par Iean Iannon Imprimeur de l'Académie. M.DC.XXI.

Rare Book copy: No. 3. Inscribed  "To Henry Lewis Bullen from his admiring disciple "Paul Beaujon" (Beatrice Warde)."