1529: Denis de Harsy

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Source:

Title: ‘Catalogus gloriae mundi, laudes, honores, excellentias ac preeminentias monium fere statuum pluriumarumque rerum illius continens.’
Author: Barthélemy de Chasseneux
Publisher: -
Printer: Denis de Harsy [et] Simon Vincent
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Lyon
Year: 1529
Links: [Scan] See page 584/820 of the scan. [USTC].

Comments:

This woodcut was used in 1529 in Lyon by Denis de Harsy [et] Simon Vincent. It is the same woodcut as Georges Regnault used in 1546 in Lyons for a reprint of the Catalogus Gloriae Mundi. [Scan] See pagenumber 230. [USTC].

Nigel Roche (2000), page 25 describes illustration G3: ‘A recutting used at Lyons by Georges Rognault in 1546. The proportions of the press have been lost, although it may be significant that the screw is now metal. ... The bank is depicted as coming within the cheeks: this must be an error.’

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

F. Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration #NEW).

Roche, Nigel (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #G3).