1573: Antoine Gryphe

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Source:

Title: ‘La prosopographie ou description des personnes insignes.’
Author: Antoine du Verdier
Publisher: -
Printer: Antoine Gryphius
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Lyon
Year: 1573
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Comments:

Nigel Roche (2000, page 31): ‘A small oval recutting was used in Antoine Du Verdier’s Prosopographie, printed at Lyons by Antoine Gryphe in 1573. The engraving is laterally-reversed and there are two compositors, but is otherwise unremarkable. The legend is ‘ARS TYPO | GRAPHICA’ in two lines.’

Louis Catherine Silvestre (1853) does not include this mark.

[Note: the mark appears on page 469 of La Prosopographie ou Description des personnes insignes.].

Technique:

Woodcut.

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 499-502. (Illustration 21*)

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #G6).