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Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders – over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.
The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.
Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders – over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.
The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.
Winner of the 2021 SCSC Bainton Prize for Reference Works
Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders – over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.
The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.
Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 is the first comprehensive guide to the Renaissance French book trade outside of Paris and Lyon. This volume presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders – over sixty of whom are identified as fictitious.
The biographies are accompanied wherever possible by the details of commercial partnerships, the type used by printers and reproductions of over a hundred signatures. The book provides the details of over six hundred women who either married into the trade or were independently active. The introductory essay analyses the nature, evolution and geographic dispersion of the members of the trade. It is an indispensable tool for understanding the French Renaissance book world.
Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 Library of the Written Word volume 87 The Handpress World Editor-in-Chief Andrew Pettegree (University of St. Andrews) Editorial Board Ann Blair (Harvard University) Falk Eisermann (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz) Shanti
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that emphasises the role of provincial retailers. 14 In such a context, the index provided by Muller seemed inadequate. The present dictionary of the bookbinders, booksellers and printers of provincial France attempts to provide the first overview of all the members of
printing in provincial france in the early 16th century 3 “Th e fi rst and only chalcographer and printer of this town”, see Liber Marbodi, (Rennes, Jean Baudouin for Jean Macé, 1524) [BnF, Rés. p YE 1533]. 4 See the ISTC’s online catalogue: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/ an absence of almost forty
Varice family and Charles de Bougne. Documents : AD Maine-et-Loire 5 E 121 18. Alissot, Jean Active : 1485–1499 Location : Paris, Île-de-France (1485–1486); Angers, Anjou (1499) Role : Bookseller, publisher Biography : He began working as a printer and bookseller in Paris with Pierre
1 See V. Scholderer, “Michael Wenssler and his press at Basel,” The Library 11 (1912): 283–321. PRINTER MOBILITY IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Malcolm Walsby By the mid-sixteenth century, printer itinerancy had become rare in France. The book trade had developed a stable modus operandi in which
, Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France, 1470–1600 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), under the entries n° 154, 1736, 1869 and 2004. 17 Acknowledgement of receipt of goods, 5 December 1561, Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime (henceforth AD Seine-Maritime), 2 E 1/434, p. 227. Little is known of
Emden ( 1556 - 68 ) (Book review), # 35 , 250 Dutch-language Book of hours, Kerver, Thielman, printer in Paris, prints, ( 1500 - 34 ), # 37 , 8 Dutch-language printed editions in British Museum, Catalogue of printed editions from the Netherlands and, ( 1470 - 1600 ) (Book review), # 37 , 197 - 8
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bookseller of one provincial town (Angers) commission an edition in another town (such as Paris or Poitiers) and have it explicitly distrib- uted in two further towns (Rennes and Nantes) remains unique in sixteenth-century French print. This complex marketing structure appears for the first time in 1540
marchands: les Ruiz. Contribution à l’étude du commerce entre la France et l’Espagne au temps de Philippe II (Paris, Armand Colin, 1955) p. 565 from the Ruiz business accounts (AM Nantes, HH 190). kinship of the Rennes printer Jean Georget and a dynasty of homo- nymic papermakers active near Fougères in