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...agreement does guarantee, however, thatBiogen will remain in Cambridge. Last year,another Cambridge-based biotechnology firm,Genzyme Corp., announced it would open a new plantin Alston...
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...Plantin has been called "the Henry Ford of printing," for he was the first to turn out books, not merely for rich and noble collectors, but for as wide an audience as possible-the whole "république Chrétienne," as he called it. In 34 years he printed 1,500 publications amounting to more than a million volumes. He pioneered in the use of copperplate engraving, and got original type faces (still widely copied in modern printing) from the great French designers Garamond and Granjon. He printed the first pocket-sized books for travelers, produced the first modern...
...Plantin was made Printer to the King by Philip II of Spain, but also kept on good terms with his own Prince 'William of Orange-Nassau. He died worth $1,600,000 and was buried in the cathedral in a grave marked "The King of Typography...
Christopher Plantin left his business to a son-in-law, Jan Moretus, and the house of Plantin-Moretus continued to flourish for three more generations. But gradually it went into a decline, and in 1876 the Plantin-Moretus family sold it to the city as a museum. Today, says Dartmouth Professor Ray Nash, "it is the greatest single source for the history of printing, publishing, book design and illustration." But it is also something more. Plantin and his successors hired the best craftsmen and artists they could find to turn their books into works of art, an achievement rarely matched...