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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fourth window. Louis Olivelli (c.14-- – c. 15--) was a printer and bookseller who began his career during the early 16th century in Valence, located in Drôme, a region in southeast France. Around 1510, Olivelli entered a partnership with printer Jean

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Lucantonio Giunta (c.14 - c.1538) originated in Florence, but by 1480 he moved to Venice, where he became one of the first printers in the city. Together with his brother Filippo, Giunta prospered and quickly established a network of

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. Macé Panthoul (c.14-- – c. 15--) worked primarily as a bookseller and bookbinder in Troyes, France. In 1501, his device appeared in the colophon of a book entitled Statuts synodaulx à l'usaige de Troyes. This book caused a great deal of

Main (Thompson) Library location: End window -- North wing. Marc Locqueneulx (15-- – 1589) worked as a bookseller and printer in Paris during the late sixteenth century. Due to similarities in printer's mark and engravings, it is possible that he was the successor of the firm of Philippe Gaultier de

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