1549: Jean de Roigny

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Source:

Title: ‘Commentarii in proverbia Salomonis, jam recens nati, et quanta maxima diligentia fieri potuit, editi, non sine indice rerum locupletissimo’.
Author: Joannes Arboreus
Publisher: -
Printer: apud Jean de Roigny
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Paris
Year: 1549
Links: [Scan], [USTC].

Comments:

This is a recut from the 1521 woodcut of Jodocus Badius Ascensius. First use is probably in 1549. [USTC].

Nigel Roche (2000), page 31: ‘Jean de Roigny, Jodocus Badius’s son-in-law, and a Paris printer from 1529 to 1565, used a close copy as his own mark. This can be distinguished by the presence of a double cross behind the puller’s foot.’

Renouard notes: ‘Réplique de la marque numéro 3 de Josse Badius son beau-père, qu’il emploie aussi.’

Note: The decoration on the trousers of the puller and beater differ too. The shape of the collar of the beater, and the stones around window-frame have different outlines.

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

Abraham Horodisch (1974) ‘Buch und Buchdruckpresse im Druckersignet des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.’ Philobiblon. Jahrgang XVIII, Heft 3, September 1974.

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 230. (Illustration #8).

Philippe Renouard (1928) Les marques typographiques parisiennnes des XVe et XVIe siècles. Paris: Champion. page 329, figure 1019. [Scan].

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration H1).