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Antoink Adgereau (Augurellus) is occasion- iUt found in connection wiui Jean Petit, Simon de' CoUnes, and others. That he printed with rery handsome types both Greek and Latin, Ifaittaire sars the impression otHtaodi Operam ^Diemm Gneee, 870. IddS, (which has a Latin preface hj Melancthon) is a proof. La Caille links Augereau amongst the improvers of the reman chaiacters.
Petbds Gadooul was one of the sereral printers whose names occasionally appear united irith that of Vascosan. The device of Pierre Saudoal is a Hand holding a burning Lamp : ' iextra ardenUm lampada mnum geretu," with Jie artist's initials P. C. and the motto " Ite MinM ad vendmtet, et emiu mbU," Matth. xsr. ind beneath, " Sic luteal lux vettea" Matth. r. His commencement in the profession must be dated about the year 1535.
JoANNKs Loooicus, a German by birth, a DatiTe of Tielt en Gueldre, whence his surname nietanus, whose commencement Maittaire erro- neously dates from the year 1537, soon became lisUnguished for great diligence and accuracy. He is said to hare been an elegant Latin scho- lar, and to hare written commentaries on Quin- tilian. Conradus Neobarius, who afterwards became the first typographus regius, was for some time his assistant His impressions were (considering the duration of his practice of the art) rather numerous. His Latin characters, both roman and italic. His prefaces evince great eradition. The insigne of Lodoieus is thus des- cribed by Maittaire : " Bitue matmijuncUe temo- ta ereetvm Cadooeum papaverioui j- tpicU trmUumj cum literU J. L." Sometimes he exhibited " Echeneida tela tratufixam," with the" Malura." He died about 1647.
Conradus Neobabius was admitted a libraire juTt in 1 538, by a very honouiable address from the " Recteur" of the university. Maittaire says, Karce any typographer practised the art for so short a period, and attained so much credit in it. He probably did not execute more than six or seven Greek works. He died in the year 1640. Henry Stephens composed several epitaphia in honour of his memory.
The mark of Neobarius was a brazen serpent upon a cross : terperu emeus in patibtdo tive tigno T trectut, cum hu aliouando cocihu T YF. SAL. i. e. tymu udutxt vel Salvatons.
Neobarius married a sister or near relative of Jacobus Tusanus : a union which may be con- sidered as a kind of pledge of his own literary character, and as an occasion of his advancement to the dienity of typographus regius. His widow afterwards subscribed herself Emonday Tusana.
Tusanus, the author of the Greek Lexicon which bears his name, was considered by bis countmnen as the ablest of their Greek scholars, after Bndsus.
Jacobus Bogardus an early Parisian printer, many of whose productions, both in Greek and Latin, are extant, and are conspicuous for the elegance of the characters. About the year 1546, he undertook an impression of the Lexicon
Ontto-Latitntm of Tusanus, but died before it was completed. He was the nephew of Char- lotte Guillard. He generally u.scd the insigne of Neobarius.
Joannes Andbeas another early Parisian printer, and who was a violent anti-refonnist Libraire. Robert Stephens speaks of him in terms of unqualified disappr()1)ation ; and from other testimonies it appears he wa.s employed by Piene Lizet president of the parliament, as a spy, for the detection of Calvinists ; and in 1546, procured the arrest of Pierre Chapot, a book- seller at Geneva, but employed at Paris as a corrector of the press, — see page 279 ante.
i^kv Jddet, also a Libraire, deserves a ho- nourable record for his opposition to Andre, and whose charitable officiousncs.s in warning the " heretics" of the plans laid for their detection at length brought him to the stake.
Thomas Richard was probably a descendant of John Richard, who is mentioned as a Pai-isian printer of the preceding century. There were others of the name at various periods ; of William Richard who practised the art about the year 1663, his mark being "a hen," with tlie words in pingui Gallina. Thoma.s Richards made his first appearance as a Greek printer, at Paris in the year 1648.
Michael Fezandat commenced his labours as a typographer by a beautiful impression of Horee in lauaem B. Virginia Maritp, secundum cmruetudinem Romanum, Gr. Lat. Kinio. 1548. This impression of the Hont, f,-c. is executed en rouge et noir, and ornamented with wood cuts elegantly designed. Fezandat had the reputation of a skilful printer, but works exhibiting his name are few. His impressions generally bear as a mark the Viper which settled on the' hand of St. Paul, with the words Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra not ; which afterwards became the distinction of Michael Sonnius.
Benedict Prevost has the character of an ingenious and able printer. La Caille attributes to liim Chrytostomut in Ptalnws, 8vo. 1545. His Nov. Test. Gr. I6mo, is a handsome and esteem- ed volume : and no less so in its kind is his im- pression (Gallice) of L'Histoire de la nature des Oiseauz, par Belon, folio, 1555, adorned with fine engravings.
Martin le Jeune distingnishcd himself in the art somewhat more than three years, by ele- gant impressions in Hebrew, as well as in Latin and Greek. He used the insigne of Neobarius. Some assert that he had possession of the " Typo- graphia" of Robert Stephens after his migration to Geneva : but the correctness of that assertion is questioned by Maittaire.
Sebastian Nivelle was conspicuous as well for the beauty of his imprestiions, (which Baillet says, were also very exact and in great request,) as by the length of time during which he exer- cised the profession. His daughter was the mother of Sebastian Cramoisy, " Typogi-aphus Regius ;" who inherited the' estabiishmeiit of his grandfather, and adopted his iu.iigne : and first appeared in the profession in the year 1609.
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