Word: granjon
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...publique Chrétienne," as he called it. In 34 years he printed 1,500 publications amounting to more than a million volumes. He pioneered in the use of copperplate engraving, and got original type faces (still widely copied in modern printing) from the great French designers Garamond and Granjon. He printed the first pocket-sized books for travelers, produced the first modern atlas. He spoke French, Flemish, Spanish, German and Latin, and scholars from all over Europe came to Antwerp to get him to publish their works...