Simon de Colines
Simon de Colines , printer
He is for much the standard first Imprimeur of the Renaissance French. He is active with Paris of 1520 with 1546. With the assistance of French decorators of books (among the finest draftsmen and artists such as Geoffroy Tory, Oronce Fine, and Claude Garamond), it virtually transformed the French by tearing off it with its medieval constraints and traditional book. It achieved what partly, by copying Aldus Manutius, to define an accessible format which enabled him in its turn to publish traditional " of pocket " accessible in a reasonable way by students, and by popularizing the types Italic S and Cursive S in France. The typographical innovations of Hills will be refined finally later by its successors in Paris, particularly by his/her son-in-law Robert Estienne who was his apprentice…
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