French Publishers (People) - Antoine Vrard, Charlotte Guillard, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Charles Hirsch, Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, Alphonse Lemerre (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Antoine Vrard, Charlotte Guillard, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Charles Hirsch, Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, Alphonse Lemerre, Andr le Breton, Laroche-Valmont, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, Max Fourny, Elias Gaucher, Jean-Franois Bizot, Eric Losfeld, Paul Winkler, Pierre Guillaume. Excerpt: Antoine Vrard (14851512) was a late 15th and early 16th century French publisher, bookmaker and bookseller. The colophon of a 1485 edition of the Catholicon abbreviatum, the first French-Latin dictionary, which dates to 1485, indicates that Antoine Vrard was based at the heart of the bookselling and printing quarter of Paris, in a shop under the sign of St John the Evangelist, on the Pont Notre-Dame (a bridge built by Charles VI of France, which collapsed in 1499). This present vocabulary was completed the .iiii. day of February 1485 for anthoine verard bookseller at the image of St John the Evangelist on the pont nostre dame or at the palace before the chapel where they sing the mass of "messeigneurs les presidens". Vrard was the turning point between illuminated manuscripts and the modern printed edition. He combined the two techniques by printing works illustrated with woodcuts, cheaper, of which he then produced versions on vellum with hand-made illuminations for wealthy clients. He also produced printed works that almost resembled precious precious hand-produced manuscripts. Many printers worked for him, on vellum and paper. Ornaments and woodcut-plates were rented out and reused by different publishers. Vrard's printer's mark is recognisable for its two eagles on a starred base, supporting a red heart bearing the three letters AVR. Vrard worked for a leisured bourgeois and noble public, notably king Charles VIII of France and even Henry VII of England. H... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22990393