Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lyons. Janon Carcain: a.D. 1486-1500. Janon Carcain was of Italian origin, probably a near relative of Antoine Carcagni, or of Carcano, printer at Pavia from 1477 to 1490. Carcain was established at Lyons, as a bookseller, in 1485; but his first piece of printing, a Lyons Breviary, was not completed until 23rd June, 1486. He was at work in Lyons at least as late as 1500. There are no illustrated productions of Carcain, and he is not known to have used a single woodcut. Device (sometimes printed in red): a K placed so that its shaft is horizontal; surmounted by a vertical bar with a St. Andrew’s cross near the top. (Not in Silvestre). i PP e MTP ATIONE CIR IS Tl: De contemptu mundi et de imitatione christi. [Here ascribed to Jean Gerson, Chancellor of Paris. | Goruic Lerrer, 29 lines to a full page. Printed signatures and catchwords. Initial spaces, with guide-letters. Initials and paragraph-marks painted in red, initial-strokes in yellow. [Lyons, Janon Carcain, about 1488. | 4to. Old limp vellum binding. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE VI.) £50 Collation: A—O* = 112 leaves (last blank). Not in Hain, Copinger, or Reichling. No copy in the British Museum. Claudin, Histoire de l’ Imprimerie en France, Vol. III, p. 460 (with repro- ductions). (Continued over) [39]
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