Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. Martin Flach (c.14-- – 1539) was the son of Strasbourg printer Martin Flach the Elder; it was from him that he learned to print. Following his father's death, Flach began to operate their family printing press and published his first book
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Mathieu Vivan (c.14-- – c. 15--) is believed to be one of the first printers in Orléans, and it is possible that he began his career in Poitiers several years earlier. The only known work attributed to Vivian is Manipulus curatorum
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Melchior Lotter (c.1470 – c.1549) was born in Aue, in the Ore Mountains, around 1470. He began to work with Leipzig printer Konrad Kachelofen, and in 1495, he printed his first book, Orationes legatorum Francorum ad Venetos. He married
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. Originally from Strasbourg, Michael Wenssler (c.14-- – c.1499) moved to Basel at an early age and quickly became a prominent typographer and printer. His earliest work, De modo perveniendi ad veram Dei et proximi dilectionem by Henricus
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Before becoming a printer and bookseller, Nicole de la Barre (c.14-- – c. 15--) received his Master of Arts at the University of Paris, where he later worked as a professor. In 1496, de la Barre became associated with printer Antoine
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Sixth window. Nicolas du Chemin, originally from Provence, established himself as a printer and engraver at the Sign of St. Michael in Paris in 1540. Before the end of the decade, du Chemin transferred his practice to a press at the Sign of the Silver
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Ottaviano Scotto (c. 1444 - c. 1499) was born to a noble family in Monza, a city in northern Italy. In 1479, he moved to Venice and printed his first book, an edition of the Diurnale Romanum. Scotto primarily worked on breviaries and
Main (Thompson) Library location: End window -- North wing. Peter Treveris (alternatively known as Peter of Treves; c. 14-- – 1535), a native of Germany, worked primarily in Southwark, London, closely pursuing his business partnership with Wynkyn de Worde between 1521 and 1533. Treveris published
Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Pierre Gaudoul (c.14-- – c.1538) was a bookseller and printer in Paris beginning in 1508. His practice began with a printing press at the Sign of St. Cyril. There Gaudoul demonstrated a strong interest in contemporary humanist literature
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fourth window. Pierre Viart (c. 14-- – 1523) was a printer and bookbinder in Paris, and beginning in 1512, he established himself at the Sign of the Silver Lion. He printed both Bibles and classical texts, including works by Ovid, Vergil, and Cicero
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Renatus Beck (c. 14-- – 1522) was born in Cologne, and by 1510, he began to work with – and married into the family of – printer Johannes Prüss. Upon Prüss' death in 1511, Beck continued his practice along with his brother-in-law
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Richard Grafton (c. 1511-1573) was born in Shrewsbury in 1511 and was apprenticed to a grocer in 1526, through whom he became affiliated with the Grocers' Company in London. This involvement did not concern trade as much as it did
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Originally from Normandy, Richard Pynson (1449 - c.1529) integrated the methods of his French contemporaries into his work in England. It is likely that he contracted his printing firm in London from English printer William de Machlinia
Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Little is known about the early life and schooling of Robert Copland (c. 14-- – 1548). Based on his work with William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, however, it is clear that Copland received a fine education, specifically in French and
Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Sébastien Nivelle (c.1523 – 1603) was born in Troyes, France circa 1523 to the stationer Jean Nivelle. He first began work in Paris for the press of Charlotte Guillard, one of the first documented female printers, in 1549, and in the next
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Sixtus Riessinger (c.14-- – c.1505) matriculated at the University of Freiburg in 1462, and became a priest in Strasbourg shortly thereafter. As was customary for priests, he learned the trade of printing during his ministry from Henry
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. Theodosius Rihel (c.15-- – 1608) was active as a printer in Strasbourg beginning in 1555, when he and his brother Josias took over the printing press of their father Wendelin. Before their father's retirement, they printed their first book
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- First window. Thielman Kerver (c. 14-- – c. 1524/5) was born in Coblentz, Germany and moved to Paris to work as a bookseller at the Sign of the Unicorn. There, with printer Jean Philippe, he became interested in the publication of Books of Hours. In
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Third window. Thierry Martens (c. 1446 - 1534) was born in Aalst, Belgium in 1446 and received his early education from the Guillelmites. Various manuscript colophons indicate that he probably studied under Girardus de Lisa in Venice. In 1473, Martens
Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fourth window. Thomas Anshelm (c.1465 – c. 15--) was born in Baden circa 1465, and twenty years later he matriculated at the University of Basel. By 1488, he issued his first production, Epistolae et Evangelia, in Strasbourg. In the following decade
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