1565: Michel de Roigny - 1

Source:

Title: ‘?’
Author: -
Publisher: -
Printer: Michel de Roigny
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Engraver: -
Location: -
Year: 1565
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Comments:

This illustration comes from Colin Clair (1969), page 7. I have not found a scan of an original publication yet.

Colin Clair (1969, page 6): ‘The illustration at the opening of the text is a copy (reduced) of the device of the Parisian bookseller, Michel de Roigny (1544-91), the grandson of Josse Bade; and is taken from Le tiers volume de Froissart. Paris [Pierre l’Huillier?], 1574.’ [Note: this book is not mentioned in the USTC?]

Nigel Roche (2000, page 47): ‘Michel de Roigny, successor to Jean de Roigny, printed at Paris from 1565 until 1591. He used as a device a design based on O, with the following changes: a gallows is added; the bar has a bow; the bank stands between the pressmen; a ewer is beside the puller’s foot and a table is seen with a flagon and cup; and the compositor faces the press with his back to the window. At the bottom of the oval scene, amongst the ornament filling a rectangle, a monogram of MDR with the double-barred cross appears.’

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

Colin Clair (1969) A chronology of printing. New York: Praeger. [Scan]. Page 7.

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 499-502. (Illustration 19)

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #P).