1567: Enguilbert II de Marnef

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Source:

Title: ‘La fauconnerie’
Author: Jean de Franchières and Artelouche de Alagona
Publisher: -
Printer: Enguilbert de Marnef, Jacques Bouchet et Guillaume Bouchet
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Poitiers
Year: 1567
Links: [USTC].

Comments:

Nigel Roche (2000, page 37): ‘A circular device, extended slightly left and right, to show a second heap of paper on the bank and a second compositor seated next to his companion. Used at Poitiers in 1567 by Enguilbert II de Marnef and the brothers Bouchet. Two mottoes are inset in the circle at the top and bottom: ‘Vitam mortuo reddo’ (= I give life and death) and ‘Je ravie le mort’ (= I delight the dead)’.

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 499-502. (Illustration 20)

Horodisch, Abraham (1974) ‘Buch und Buchdruckpresse im Druckersignet des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.’ Philobiblon. Jahrgang XVIII, Heft 3, September 1974. (page 191, illustration 48).

Ronald B. McKerrow (1928) An introduction to bibliography for literary students. London: Oxford University Press. [Scan], page 45.

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #K1).

Louis Catherine Silvestre (1853) Marques typographiques, volume 1, page 311, no 562. [Scan].