Elzevir

[elziviә]

Definition

(a.) Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.

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Definition

adj. published by the Elzevirs a celebrated family of printers at Amsterdam Leyden and other places in Holland whose small neat editions were chiefly published between 1592 and 1681: pertaining to the type used in their 12mo and 16mo editions of the Latin classics.—n. a special form of printing types.

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