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Description: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: Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe Deschamps, Dirk Martens, Jan Moretus. Excerpt: Colard Mansion (or Colart, before 1440 after May 1484) was a 15th century Flemish scribe and printer who worked together with William Caxton. He is known as the first printer of a book with copper engravings, and as the printer of the first books in English and French. Colard Mansion was a central figure in the early printing industry in Bruges. He was active as early as 1454 as a bookseller, and was also active as a scribe, translator and contractor for manuscripts, which meant entering into contracts with the clients, and organizing and sub-contracting the elements such as scribing, decorating and binding. From 1474 until 1476 he worked together with the early English printer William Caxton, and he continued the company on his own afterwards. Caxton probably learned the art of printing from Mansion, and it was from Mansion's press that the first books printed in English (Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye) and French came. He moved to the Burg, the commercial heart of Bruges at the time, in 1478. Mansion suffered heavily under the economic crisis in Bruges in the 1480s, and only one work was printed after the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. Nothing is known with certainty about his life after 1484, although he may have moved to Picardy. Mansion sold illuminated manuscripts to the aristocracy, and luxurious incunabula to the bourgeoisie, but he was one of the first to also publish smaller and cheaper books of only twenty to thirty pages, mainly in French. Nowadays, 25 editions of incunabula by Mansion alone are known, making him the most prolific of Bruges' early printers. Only two of these are... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13460959We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belgian Publishers (People): Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe DesChamps. To get started finding Belgian Publishers (People): Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe DesChamps, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2010

ISBN: 1158022018

Description: 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: Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe Deschamps, Dirk Martens, Jan Moretus. Excerpt: Colard Mansion (or Colart, before 1440 after May 1484) was a 15th century Flemish scribe and printer who worked together with William Caxton. He is known as the first printer of a book with copper engravings, and as the printer of the first books in English and French. Colard Mansion was a central figure in the early printing industry in Bruges. He was active as early as 1454 as a bookseller, and was also active as a scribe, translator and contractor for manuscripts, which meant entering into contracts with the clients, and organizing and sub-contracting the elements such as scribing, decorating and binding. From 1474 until 1476 he worked together with the early English printer William Caxton, and he continued the company on his own afterwards. Caxton probably learned the art of printing from Mansion, and it was from Mansion's press that the first books printed in English (Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye) and French came. He moved to the Burg, the commercial heart of Bruges at the time, in 1478. Mansion suffered heavily under the economic crisis in Bruges in the 1480s, and only one work was printed after the death of Mary of Burgundy in 1482. Nothing is known with certainty about his life after 1484, although he may have moved to Picardy. Mansion sold illuminated manuscripts to the aristocracy, and luxurious incunabula to the bourgeoisie, but he was one of the first to also publish smaller and cheaper books of only twenty to thirty pages, mainly in French. Nowadays, 25 editions of incunabula by Mansion alone are known, making him the most prolific of Bruges' early printers. Only two of these are... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13460959We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belgian Publishers (People): Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe DesChamps. To get started finding Belgian Publishers (People): Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe DesChamps, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Belgian Publishers (People): Belgian Printers, Colard Mansion, Christophe Plantin, Merten de Keyser, Hieronymus Cock, Adolphe DesChamps

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