The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557 — John Shaqi
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
It may be that the original
stock of these sheets was damaged in some way and reprints made to
supply their place, an occurrence of which several examples are known,
otherwise they are the only remains of an edition now lost.
The last book with a York stationer’s name in the colophon was a
_Breviary_ printed in August 1533 by Regnault at Paris for Gachet. In
the same year Regnault printed a _Missal_. This has not Gachet’s name
in the colophon, but was to be sold at Paris in the Rue St Jacques
at the sign of the Elephant, Regnault’s own address. Regnault had
been the most important printer of English service books, and we know
from a letter written by him to Cromwell in 1536, that he had a
place of business in London from which he supplied the booksellers.
By that time, however, his trade in such books had almost altogether
disappeared.
Perhaps on account of the restrictions placed upon alien stationers by
the act of 1534, we find among others taking out letters of denization
in 1535 “John Gachet, alias Frenchman, of the city of York bookbinder,
from the dominion of the King of France,” but we find no further
mention of him as dealing in books, nor do we know anything of his
later career. We meet, however, with other members of the family. In
1543 John Gachet, Frenchman, of the parish of St Michael le Belfry,
occurs in a list of soldiers sent from York to Newcastle. If this
was a son of our stationer, he died shortly afterwards, as in 1551
administration of the effects of John Gachet, son of John Gachet of
York, stationer, dying at Rawcliffe, was granted to George Gachet, his
brother. A William Gachet, stationer, was admitted to the freedom of
the city in 1549-50, and the will of another William Gachet of York is
dated 1551.
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