Plantin, Christophe, a printer of Antwerp, born near Tours, in France; celebrated for the beauty and accuracy of the work that issued from his press, the most notable being the “Antwerp Polyglot”; he had printing establishments in Leyden and Paris, as well as Antwerp, all these conducted by sons-in-law (1514‒1589).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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