Pierre Haultin

French printer and publisher

Pierre Haultin (c. 1510 – 1587) was a French printer, publisher, punchcutter and typefounder.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

He was the nephew of the famous Parisian women printer Charlotte Guillard.^[7] As a punchcutter, he may have been trained by Claude Garamont, who worked for Guillard.^[7] He started his career as a typefounder, a woodcutter and a bookseller in Paris around 1545.^[7]

A French Calvinist, Haultin left Paris for Lyon and Geneva in 1550, and then ran a printing office in La Rochelle from 1571 to 1587.^[8] Haultin engraved many typefaces, including romans, italics, Greek and music type, which were widely used across Europe; his nephew Jerome Haultin lived in London from around 1568 and sold his types there.^[9]

References

^ Carter 2002, p. 86-7.
^ Lane 1996, pp. 110, 115.
^ Vervliet 2008, p. 243.
^ Jimenes, Rémi (March 2017). "Reconsidering Pierre Haultin's Early Career: Roots, Training, Beginnings (1546–1550)" (PDF). The Library. 18 (1): 62–80. doi:10.1093/library/18.1.62.
^ "Pierre Haultin". Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
^ Jimenes, Rémi. "La jeunesse de Pierre Haultin : origine familiale, formation et début de carrière (1546-1550)". Mnémosyne. Esad Amiens. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jimenes, Rémi (March 2017). "Reconsidering Pierre Haultin's Early Career: Roots, Training, Beginnings (1546–1550)" (PDF). The Library. 18 (1): 62–80. doi:10.1093/library/18.1.62.
^ Vervliet 2008, pp. 244–246.
^ Vervliet 2008, pp. 247–8.

Cited literature

Carter, Harry; Morison, Stanley (1967). Sixteenth-century French Typefounders: The Le Bé memorandum. Private printing for A. Jammes.
Carter, Harry (2002). Mosley, James (ed.). A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600 (Reprinted ed.). London: Hyphen. ISBN 978-0-907259-21-3.
Dreyfus, John, ed. (1963). Type Specimen Facsimiles. London: Bowes & Bowes, Putnam.
Jimenes, Rémi (2017). "Reconsidering Pierre Haultin's Early Career: Roots, Training, Beginnings (1546–1550)". The Library. 18–1: 62–80.
Lane, John A. (1996). "From the Grecs du Roi to the Homer Greek: Two Centuries of Greek Printing Types in the Wake of Garamond". In Macrakis, Michael S. (ed.). Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels (PDF). Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 9781884718274.
Shaw, Paul (18 April 2017). Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past. Yale University Press. pp. 48, 61. ISBN 978-0-300-21929-6.
Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. (2008). "Printing Types of Pierre Haultin, c. 1510-1587". The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces. BRILL. pp. 243–286. ISBN 978-90-04-16982-1.
Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. (2010). French Renaissance Printing Types: a Conspectus. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 978-1-58456-271-9.