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Antoine VĂ©rard was a French publisher and bookseller active in Paris, 1485–1512. He was the first to publish a Book of Hours in France in 1485, printed by Jean du PrĂ©. A single copy has survived – now held at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York. A page from one of VĂ©rard’s deluxe editions, […] Pietro Aretino: (1492[3] – 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist. Author of Sonetti lussuriosi (1527), sixteen erotically explicit sonnets written to accompany Marcantonio Raimondi’s engravings of Giulio Romano’s drawings of the sexual positions in I Modi. This book is featuted in the ILT article, From Farting to Fornication. See Wikipedia Antonio Blado (1490–1567) was active in Rome as a printer as early as 1516. His printing press was in the immediate vicinity of Campo de ‘Fiori , along Via Mercatoria, formerly the site of the print-shop of Italy’s first documented printers, Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz. According to some sources, in 1527 he came into […] Robert Granjon (1513-90) was a French type designer, punchcutter, and printer. He worked in Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and Rome. He also introduced the typeface CivilitĂ©. Some of the materials used by Granjon, including matrices and punches are preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Wikipedia / Linotype Lorenzo Morgiani was a prolific printer who began in Florence in 1490 and probably died in the early sixteenth century. He worked in association with a German printer, Johannes Petri of Mainz, who had been active as a printer in Florence since 1472, partly in association with the San Jacopo a Ripoli press. Source: Sotheby’s Paganino Paganini (Latin: Paganinus de Paganinis), (c. 1450–1538), was an Italian printer and publisher born in Brescia, working in Venice. He was the first to print of Luca Pacioli’s Summa de arithmetica and De divina proportione. He is also credited with the first printed edition of the Quran in Arabic.* * See Angela Nuovo’s, A […] In the early days, printing was an especially expensive business. A large investment in the printing equipment itself, the cost of paper, and labor constituted a significant investment that could only be recouped much later on — if at all! Printing privileges (the first in Europe issued in Venice to the printing firm of the […] Christian Wechel* (fl. 1522–1554) Originally from Germany but established his business in Paris. The first member of the Wechel printing dynasty, succeeded by his son Andrew who fled France after the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day. Christian himself had run into trouble when he published Erasmus’ ‘De eso interdicto carnium’ (1534). – source: British Museum. […]
Antoine VĂ©rard
April 19, 2019
Aretino, Pietro
March 13, 2020
Blado, Antonio
June 16, 2019
Granjon, Robert
May 2, 2020
Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri
March 12, 2019
Paganino Paganini
March 13, 2019
Printing Privileges
September 27, 2020
Wechel, Christian
July 4, 2019
