CHARLOTTE GUILLARD. UNE FEMME IMPRIMEUR À LA RENAISSANCE.

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Rennes, France, Presses Universitaires François Rabelais & de Rennes, 2017, pictorial paper-covered boards

First edition., Near Fine

 

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First edition. Minor bump to the top corner of the front board, else a fine copy. With color and b&w illustrations throughout.

Charlotte Guillard is an exceptional figure of the French Renaissance. Originally from Maine, she led a brilliant career in typography in Paris. Widowed in turn by the printers Berthold Rembolt and Claude Chevallon, she managed the Soleil d'Or workshop as mistress-wife for nearly twenty years, from 1537 to 1557. Under her direction, the company cornered the market for legal publishing and the Fathers of the Church, publishing scholarly editions prepared by some of the most illustrious Parisian humanists (Antoine Macault, Jacques Toussain, Jean Du Tillet, Guillaume Postel.). Bringing together in a single intellectual project the most conservative Parisian theologians and the most novel scholars, her production testifies to the liveliness of the debates that agitated intellectual circles in the century of the Reformations. Beyond the simple biography of Charlotte Guillard, this work highlights the social, economic and technical springs on which the editorial activity of the Soleil d'Or is based. It thus opens new perspectives on the conditions of production and marketing of scholarly books in a decisive century for the history of ideas."

 

Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais & de Rennes, 2017; 4to., pictorial paper-covered boards; 303 pages. Book # 142245

 

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