1620

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Source:

Title: It is the report of a court case: Procès Melchior Tavernier
Author: Louis Servin
Publisher: -
Printer: -
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Paris
Year: 1620
Links: [Scan].

This illustration is included in a collection of printed and manuscript materials: Collection ANISSON-DUPERRON sur la Librairie et l’Imprimerie. LIX-LXI Graveurs, dominoteurs, marchands d’estampes, 1391-1787. LIX Années 1391-1733. The documents are numbered by hand, and this illustration appears in part 13 in between pages 22 and 23.

Comments:

Roger Gaskell (2020) notes: ‘The original source is the Procès Tavernier, 1620. See Jeanne Duportal (1914) Étude sur les livres à figures édités en France de 1601 à 1660. Paris, Honoré Champion. [Scan] page 79. Plate V. has as caption: ‘Presses à imprimer en 1620. Gravure anonyme (Pièces du Procès Tavernier.) (Bibliothèque Nationale.– Département des Manuscrits. F. Fr. Ms 22.119.).

See also: Marianne Grivel (1986) ‘Le Commerce de l’estampe à Paris Au XVIIe Siècle.’ Histoire et Civilisation Du Livre 16. Genève: Librairie Droz.

Technique:

Engraving

Publications

Meier, Henri (1941d) ‘The Origin of the Printing and Roller Press.’ Print Collector’s Quarterly, volume 28, no. 4 (Dec.), pp. 496-527. (page 510).

Stijnman, Ad (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, London: Archetype; Houten: Hes & De Graaf. (figure 230).

H. de la Fontaine Verwey (1976) Uit de wereld van het boek II. Drukkers, liefhebbers en piraten in de zeventiende eeuw, Amsterdam, page 68-69 (plate 18) and J.E. van Roosmalen-Mann, o.c., p. 27 (figure 12). [to be checked]