Elzevir

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El•ze•vir

or El•ze•vier

(ˈɛl zəˌvɪər, -vər, -sə-)

n.
Louis, c1540–1617, Dutch printer.
El`ze•vir′i•an, adj.
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References in periodicals archive
(35.) Catalogus variorum librorum e bibliothecis Francisci Raphelengii (Leiden: Elzevir, 1626).
constitution liber (Amsterdam: Ludovic Elzevir, 1647); and Poeticarum
(18) Thibaudeau declared that Jenson's letter should be classified as a "Romain Elzevir," and no cognate of humanist appears in the major type classifications he published in the early 1920s.
Las primeras colecciones salieron de los talleres de Aldo Manuzio, quien imprimio una coleccion de clasicos de bolsillo a principios del siglo XVI, a la que siguieron las de otros impresores como los Elzevir. La epoca moderna de las colecciones se inicia en la Francia del siglo XVIII con el librero Gervais Charpentier, editor de una serie de cuatrocientos titulos de autores clasicos y contemporaneos.
John and Elzevir realise Blackbeard's locket could lead them to the diamond.
The 56-year-old plays smuggler Elzevir Block who is landed in prison after being shipwrecked.
His current role, as smuggler-with-a-heart-of-gold Elzevir Block in the adventure series Moonfleet, sees him juggle his wheeling and dealing with caring for an orphaned teenager.
Ray Winstone will play Elzevir Block, innkeeper-turned-smuggler, in the Sky One adaptation which is to be shown in two parts on December 28 and 29 at 8pm.
Erine Hierle est une jeune auteure francaise qui a publie recemment [beaucoup moins que]Ce n'est pas grave[beaucoup plus grand que] (Editions Elzevir) dont elle nous parle avec passion.
Both main bodies of text are printed in Scotch Roman, a popular font of the time, and use Elzevir type for some of the headings (for example, Whitman's title for the poem "Walt Whitman").
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