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Pre, Philippe Pigouchet + their followers + rivals.
Verard employed various printers ot print
certain of his books, but the bulk of them were
produced in an establishment of his own.
The later of the Verard Horaw (beginning with Aug.
10 1498) contain illustrations imitated from
Pigouchet. (16th C illustrations - 5 sets.)
-Verard publications 1) Books of devotion 2) Books
of chicalry 3) Poems + light literature 4) Quasi -
scientific books 5) Translations of the classics.
- in one respect, he is without a rival - in the
sumptious illuminated vellum copies produced for
his royal + other distinguished patrons. (Charles
VIII, Louis XI, Anne of Brittany + Henery VII of England)
Verard lived on Port Notre-Dame, at the
sign of St. John Evangelist until the collapse of the
bridge on 12 Oct. 1499, when he moved to premises under
the same sign in the Rue St. Jacques Pres Petit-Pont
or pres du cave four St. Severin "on the left baak
of the Seine. In 1503 he was living 'devant la Rue-
Neuve Notre-Dame' lso sometimes described as 'Bres
Petit-Pont' on the right bank of the Seme, where
his last book dated in July 1512 was produced.