Alphonse Alkan (also known as Alphonse the Elder, 1809 in

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– 1889 in

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) was a French printer,

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, and author.ALKAN, ALPHONSE
Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901-1906. Retrieved 20 April 2014. He was a brother of

Eugène Alcan Eugène Alcan (1811 – c. 1898) was a French Jewish litterateur, painter, and poet, who embraced Roman Catholic Christianity.orthography An orthography is a set of convention (norm), conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, Word#Word boundaries, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and Emphasis (typography), emphasis. Most national ...

of the family name has never been explained.ALCAN, EUGÈNE
Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901-1906. Retrieved 20 April 2014. He first worked as a practical printer, then wrote for various typographical and bibliographical reviews, and subsequently was appointed secretary and proof-reader to the Count de Clarac, keeper of the Museum of Antiquities in the

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. Alkan was a prolific writer and the author of many books, pamphlets, and articles, which deal with the art and history of printing and illustrating as well as with bibliography. The ''

Jewish Encyclopedia ''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'' is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the ...

'' lists his most important books as: * ''Les Femmes Compositrices d'Imprimerie sous la Révolution Française de 1794, par un Ancien Typographe,'' 1862 (anonymous) * ''Les Graveurs de Portraits en France,'' 1879 * ''Documents pour Servir à l'Histoire de la Librairie Parisienne,'' 1879 * ''Les Livres et Leurs Ennemis,'' 1883 * ''Les Etiquettes et les Inscriptions des Boîtes-Volumes de Pierre Jannet, Fondateur de la Bibliothèque Elzéverienne,'' 1883 * ''Edouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye, un Fondeur en Caractères, Membre de l'Institut,'' 1886 * ''Berbignier et SonLivre: les Farfadets,'' 1889 * ''Les Quatre Doyens de la Typographie Parisienne,'' 1889

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