1524: Jean Baudoin

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Source:

Title: ‘Liber Marbodi’
Author: Marbodus
Publisher: -
Printer: Jean Baudoin [et] Jean Macé
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Rennes
Year: 1524
Links: [Scan 1], [ISTC].

Comments:

Current location: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. p-Yc-1533. I’ve not been able to find a better quality image yet.

Nigel Roche (2000), page 19: ‘Yet another close copy used as a device by Jean Baudouyn, printer at Rennes in 1524. A shield replaces the device at the foot.’

Technique:

Woodcut.

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 230. (Illustration #6).

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration B6).

Louis Catherine Silvestre (1853) Marques typographiques, volume 2, page 669, no 1153. [link].