. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . ardauthority on its subject. He inchned to the Pro-testant faith and attempted to publish such worksas he chose; for this, he was obUged to leave Franceand went to Geneva. Henry, the son of Robert,also a learned man, printed in Paris and pubHshed many works, among them numerouseditions of the Greek classics, but his fame as ascholar rests upon his Dictionary of the GreekLanguage. In the latter part of his hfe, as he suf-fered from pecuniary losses, he became restless, andshifted his residence from one place to another,doing much edi
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . ardauthority on its subject. He inchned to the Pro-testant faith and attempted to publish such worksas he chose; for this, he was obUged to leave Franceand went to Geneva. Henry, the son of Robert,also a learned man, printed in Paris and pubHshed many works, among them numerouseditions of the Greek classics, but his fame as ascholar rests upon his Dictionary of the GreekLanguage. In the latter part of his hfe, as he suf-fered from pecuniary losses, he became restless, andshifted his residence from one place to another,doing much editorial work and also publishingbooks. After his death, which occurred in 1598,the reputation of the house was kept up for sometime by other members of the family. Christopher Plantin was a celebrated printerHantinf ^ and publisher of Antwerp. He was born in 1514,near Tours in France, and studied under the kingsprinter at Caen. In 1555 he set up a press atAntwerp, and published in that year his firstvolume, entitled Institution d^une Fille de Noble. EARLY PEINTING-PRES8ES 45 Maison. Although a good linguist, Plantin madeno claim to scholarly attainments. He was askilful business man and spent large sums of moneyon the details of his work to insure good typog-raphy. He employed a number of scholars andartists to assist in the preparation of his works,which were famous for their beautiful letterpressand fine copperplate illustrations. Plantin pub-lished books, not only in Latin and Greek, as hadbeen done by Aldus and Estienne, but also in thevernacular of the people—in French, German,Flemish, Dutch, English, Spanish and had printing-houses in Leyden and Paris, andan agency at Salamanca. He died in 1589, leavingconsiderable property to his children. Plantinhad no son, but as three of his daughters hadmarried men acquainted with the printing busi-ness, the establishment continued in the Moret or Moretus,^ a son-in-law, succeededPlantin as the head of the hous
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