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Credit: Antoine Vérard / by John Macfarlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![are six books issued by one or other of these successors. The three dated are a Froissart of 1518 and a Sejour d'Honneur of 1519, with the familiar device of Antoine Verard and his name in the colophon, and a Petrarque of 1514 with the name of Barthelemy Verard in the colophon and his device.1 Of the un- dated books, there is a Bible, also with the name and device of Barthelemy, a Vita Christi with the name of Barthelemy and the device of Antoine, and a Psalterium with the name of Antoine and the device of Barthelemy. Further, in 1527 a book appears,2 Les Mots dores de Seneque, printed in April, 1527 [1528], “for Germaine Guyart, widow of Antoine Verard.” To these testimonies must be added the lawsuits 3 of May 20th, 1528, where Germaine Guyart appears with Marguerite, Jeanne, and Guillaume Verard, and in another court, “ Catherine Laillier, widow of the late Barthelemy Verard, who was also son and heir of Antoine Verard deceased,” all requiring the division of certain vineyards formerly the property of Antoine Verard. On these fa<5ts, the theory of Baron Pichon and M. Vicaire is that there were two Antoines, the first the well-known publisher, the second a son of his who published from 1518 to 1527 ; and that Barthelemy was the son of the second Antoine. As, how- ever, his only dated book appears in 1514, this theory involves the somewhat extraordinary supposition that he took on the business at his grandfather’s death, and was succeeded by his own father. This difficulty may be avoided by supposing that the name of Antoine of the colophons after 1514 is merely copied from the earlier ones as being a sort of trade mark (and it may be mentioned that all of them, except perhaps the Psalterium Daviticum, are re- prints of publications of the “ original ” Antoine). It will be seen that there is nothing in the legal documents inconsistent with this 1 See Appendix of Reproductions. s See Documents pour servir a Vhistoire des libraires de Parity 1486-1600. Publics par le baron JCrome Pichon et Georges Vicaire. Paris, 1895. 8vo. * Pichon and Vicaire, op. cit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040181_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
