1584

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Source:

Title: Le premier livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques.
Author: Jean Errard (Jean Erard)
Publisher: -
Printer: Jean-Janson
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Nancy
Year: 1584
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2]. [USTC].

Comments:

The description of the illustration in a list states: ‘28. Nouvelle façon de presse plus compendieuse & aisée que les communes tant pour imprimer livres que pour estamper toutes figures taillées sur leton ou cuyure.’
Ad Stijnman (2012, page 26): ‘French ‘leton’ (a corruption of ‘laiton’) is ‘latten’ in English, ‘latoenkoper’ in Netherlandish, a copper alloy with low percentages of lead and tin’.

The text in the illustration itself is: ‘Novum preli genus ad excudendum quidlibet caeteris multo et compendiosius et accommodatius.’

Technique:

Engraving

Publications

Errard de Bar-le-Duc, Jean (1584) Le premier livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques, Nancy. [Scan]. [Facsimile 1979: Paris: Berger-Levrault. ISBN-13: 978-2701303147]

Griffiths, Antony (1997) ‘Two early Printing Presses.’ Print Quarterly, volume 14, no. 4 (Dec.), pp. 403–406. (see figure 246 on page 405).

Stijnman, Ad (2010) ‘Stradanus’s print shop.’ Print Quarterly Publications, volume 27, no 1 (March 2010), pp 11-29. (See Appendix 2: ‘A list of depictions of engraving tools, engravers at work and intaglio print shops up to 1600’, pp. 27–29, see no. 11 at page 28.)

Stijnman, Ad (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, London: Archetype; Houten: Hes & De Graaf.