1545: Josse Lambrecht

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Source:

Title: ‘Corte instruccye, ende onderwijs, hoe een jeghelic mensche met God, ende zynen even naesten, schuldigh es, ende behoord te leven.’
Author: Cornelis van der Heyden
Publisher: -
Printer: Joos Lambrecht
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Gent
Year: 1545
Links: [Scan], [ISTC].

Comments:

This illustration appears in books printed by Joos Lambrecht in Gent in 1545, but also in books printed in 1548 by Anthony Scoloker in the United Kingdom (Madan #13), for example in Ordinarye of Christians. [USTC]

Janet Ing Freeman (1990, page 480) states: ‘Certainly his types were not English, but rather obtained from the Ghent printer and founder Joos Lambrechts; while still at Ipswich he also owned a set of sixty-five woodblocks first used at Ghent by Lambrecht in 1545.’ She continues in footnote 29 on page 491: ‘In April 1548 Lambrecht sold some of his types and presses to another Ghent printer, and it is reasonable to suppose that it was in late 1547 or early 1548 that Scoloker acquired the Corte instruccye woodblocks and his three founts of Lambrecht type.’

Nigel Roche (2000) page 33: ‘This has attracted particular attention because it shows the earliest image of a typefounder at work.’

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

Carter, Harry (1969, Hyphen press edition 2002) A view of early typography up to about 1600. London: Hyphen press. (Illustration #7).

Janet Ing Freeman (1990) ‘Anthony Scoloker, the “Just reckoning” printer, and the earliest Ipswich printing.’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Volume 9(5), page 476-496.

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration by Lambrecht is not mentioned. Madan mentions a 1548 version of Scoloker as number 13).

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 Unpublished MA thesis.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