The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
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The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon)
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain; Printing -- Great Britain -- History
Of the _Manual_, also undated, only one copy is known, in the library
bequeathed to Dublin by Narcissus Marsh, the Archbishop. It has no name
of printer, but only the statement on the title that it was printed
for Gachet. The _Hymnal_ is known from two copies, one in the British
Museum, and another in the library of St John’s College, Cambridge.
It fortunately has a full imprint and colophon stating that it was
printed for Gachet by Olivier and finished on the 5th of February 1517.
By an oversight in the printing of the Museum copy, four pages have
been left quite blank.
After issuing this series of service books Gachet left York and moved
to Hereford, where he published a book in May, but of his movements
during the next few years we know nothing. Soon after his leaving
York, two Rouen booksellers issued a _Missal_ and _Book of Hours_,
but in the interval between 1517 and 1526 no York books were issued.
In this latter year Gachet once more appeared at York and published a
_Breviary_, printed for him at Paris by François Regnault, the first
York book printed at a Paris press, most of the previous service books
having been printed at Rouen.
Between 1530 and 1533 Gachet issued another series of service books,
two _Missals_, a _Processional_, and a _Breviary_. A _Missal_ and a
_Processional_ were issued in 1530, and, though neither contains a
printer’s name, they were certainly printed at Rouen. On the title-page
of the _Missal_ is the large M with the name Holivier engraved upon
it, but by 1530 Olivier had ceased to print, and the book may be
ascribed to his successor, Nicholas le Roux. Three copies are known
of this _Missal_, two in Oxford and one in Marsh’s Library, Dublin.
One of the Oxford copies was, sometime in the seventeenth century,
bound in two volumes, with most disastrous results, for now one volume
is in the Bodleian, the other in the library of Queen’s College. The
_Processional_ is an octavo of ninety-six leaves. Both Dr Henderson
and Davies have in their descriptions confused this edition with the
earlier undated one issued about 1516. The present has the date 1530
upon the title-page, but contains no name of printer or place; the
colophon merely states that it was printed for Gachet. The copy in
the Bodleian is a very fine one and contains the signature J. Brooke,
probably Sir John Brooke, the Yorkshire Royalist. It is in its original
binding apparently executed in York, as the boards are lined with
unused sheets of the York _Breviary_ printed for Gachet in 1526. The
British Museum copy has four quires, that signed F and the last three,
printed in a different type, though the text agrees page for page with
the ordinary copies. In them the colophon ends, “Impressum expensis
honesti viri Johannis Gachet, in eadem civitate commorantis,” but in
the Museum impression the final words, “in eadem civitate commorantis,”
have been omitted. No edition is known from which these four quires
in the Museum copy could have been taken.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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