Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chambery. Antoine Neyret: a.p. 1484-1486. Only 15th century printer at Chambéry. | The ancient French city of Chambéry, formerly the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, lies about 46 miles SSW. of Geneva. Only one press was set up at Chambéry in the XVth century: this was the press of Antoine Neyret, who is not known to have printed elsewhere. | G. Brunet (La France Litt., p. 19) states that Antoine Neyret was a native of Lyons. Neyret’s first production, a French translation of the Sermons of Maurice de Sully, was completed on the 6th of July, 1484. Burger cites only six productions from Neyret’s press, of which four are dated (1484-6). Brunet I, 705, describes another work of this same printer dated 1485, making seven books in all. With the exception of the Comestor (tem No. 14 in this catalogue), all Neyret’s books are in French; they include two editions of Le livre de Baudoyn. ‘The types used for printing the Comestor closely resemble those used by Heinrich Wirczburg at Rougemont, in Switzerland, in 1481. Neyret issued several richly illustrated productions. The woodcuts of the Sully show German influence in the design and execution. A very curious calligraphic woodcut initial I was printed at the beginning of the Sully and the Comestor (see Plate III in this catalogue). Printer’s devices: 1, two nude female figures supporting a shield bearing a tower flanked by two horns; 2, a decorated ietter C (Chambéry), containing the word “ Fert’’ and the cross of Savoy. | [32]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31814323_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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