The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elzevir \El"ze*vir\, a. (Bibliog.) 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.
The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and
the elegant small types used.
--Brande & C.
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Elzevir may refer to:
Usage examples of "elzevir".
No visitor can read all this on the lettered backs of the books that have gathered around the scholar, but for him, from the Aldus on the lowest shelf to the Elzevir on the highest, every volume has a language which none but be can interpret.
There stood in the book-shelves a copy of the Corpus Juris Civilis,--the fine Elzevir edition of 1664.
Diodati found Galileo a Dutch publisher, Louis Elzevir, who visited him at Il Gioiello in May of 1636 to settle their agreement.
Dutch publishing dynasty of Elsevier or Elzevir, the namesake and grandson of the founder of the firm.
Germany, Flanders, England, Spain, and perhaps also to some place in Italy, when I was notified by the Elzevirs that they had these works of mine in press, and that I must therefore decide about the dedication and send them promptly my thoughts on that subject.
He is talking of large, black old books of divinity, and of their successors, tiny books, Elzevirs perhaps.
The Houses of Plantin and the Elzevirs required no help in selling out their cheap editions.
On the window-seat below them, a pile of Plantins and Elzevirs threatened to bury a steel casket.