Pierre Rouault
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Pierre Rouault
Printer in Avignon, 1497–1506
Imprimeur, libraire
Worked in Lyon from 1485 to 1499 then moved to Avignon from Lyon with J. Du Pré (BMC). He loaned bâtarde type and presses etc. from Topié in 1501 (Claudin, iii, 350; iv, 50). He returned to Lyon 1507–1512.
- Addresses
- References
- Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle (1989) t. I, 233.
- Malcolm Walsby, Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600, Leiden, Brill (2020), no. 2417, p. 792.
- Baudrier, i, 377.
- Devices
- Not found in the item catalogued.
- Types
Name | Size | Dates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
B11 | 83 | 1502 | with a mixed uncial uppercase. |
- Initials
- Spaces and guide letters
- Signatures
- ‘$’–‘$iii’
- Catchwords
- None.
The following books were printed by Pierre Rouault in Avignon
31 May 1502Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.[Epistulae.]Epistole senece.[Avignon]: [Colophon:] Impressum Auenione opera & impensis: Georgii serre bibliopole [pr. by P. Rouault?] Anno M. quingentesimo secundo pridie calendas iunii, 1502.4°: aA⁴ a–z & ʔ ꝝ A⁶.Probably printed in Avignon for Georges Serre with the typographical material of Pierre Rouault who was the only printer active in Avignon at this date.
[View full record] C.97.bb.15.
© DJS, 27/03/2021