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Printers - Books of Hours.
1) P. Pigouchet 6) Les Hardouyn
2) S. Vostre 7) Guillaume Estrace
Nicole " 8) " Godard
3) A. Verard 9) Francois Regnault
4) Jean du Pre 10) G. Tory et sus successeurs.
5) T. Kerver

Pen to Press p. 53 - Functionally superfluous but aesthetically desired rulings
were added to printed house to broaden their market
appeal. In the same way painted initials, line endings,
decorated borders + miniatures were added.
- Speaking of the Hardouins, Egidius + Germain, Dibin says
"they were both unquestionably very beautiful printers +
maintained a prodigious traffic in the sale of devotional
volumes, their production being upon the whole fully equal
to those of Kerver, Pigouchet + Vostre."

Lacombe #302. Heures a l'usage de Rome - vers 1520.

Almanach pour 1520--25.
-imprimees a Paris, par Gilles Hardouynall librarie, demourant
au bout du pont Noastre Dame // devant Sainte Denis de la
Chartre, a l'enserigue // de la Rose d'or, pour Germain
Hardouyn, libraire, demourant entre les deux portes du //
Palays, a l'enseige Sainete Marguerite.

In 8^0. Goth Fig. en couleurs. Sur velin.
copy Bibl. de l'Arsenal. Th. 2954
80 fauillets en 10. calriers signes A-K par 8
20 lignes. Au bar du fol 34 - Hore beate Marie -
? Cf. P. Deschamps et. G. Brunet, Supplement au
Manuch, I. I. col. 618, 4e article - 36 gr. s. bois