Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - Vautrollier

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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Vautrollier.

Thomas Vautrollier is the earliest refugee printer, whose work I have seen. He came from France to England, early in the year 1564. In the London census of strangers in 1571 he is found in Blackfriars, and is entered as a bookbinder.

French I.

Thomas Votrollyer, Frenchman, bookbynder, howsholder, came into this realme about vii. yeares past for religion.

French Church. Denizen I.

He printed Delaune’s abridgement of Calvin’s Institutes, first edition, 1583; second edition, 1584. His printer’s mark or device represents a cloud, out of which proceeds a hand, suspending an anchor entwined with olive branches — motto, Anchora Spei. I have the second edition, of which the title is [v being put for u]:— “Institutionis Christianas Religionis a Ioanne Calvino conscriptae Epitome. In qua adversariorum objectionibus breves ac solidae responsiones annotantur. Per Gulielmum Launeum, Verbi Dei Ministrum. Editio secunda emendatior : Tabulis etiam ct Indice multò facilioribus et locupletioribus. I Pet. 3. 15. Estote semper parati ad respondendum cuilibet petenti rationem spei quae in vobis est, cum lenitate et reverentiâ, Londini, Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius Typographus. 1584.”

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