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
The master to whom Kaetz referred was very possibly Christopher
Endoviensis or Van Ruremond, who, when Kaetz set up in business on
his own account, printed books for him. Van Ruremond we know printed
English prognostications, single folio broadsides such as would be sold
at a penny a piece, which as we know from Dorne’s day-book was the
usual price of a single sheet, so that he may have been the printer
of these supplied to Siberch at twenty-five for a shilling. The New
Testaments were probably of a Latin version since they are called Nova
Testamenta in the letter. Nicholas, to whom a packet was sent, was, we
may suppose, Speryng.
After 1522 Siberch seems to have relinquished his business as a
printer and stationer. We have no reference to him in accounts, and
as his name does not occur in the Subsidy Rolls of 1523-24 it may be
considered as fairly certain that he was not then in Cambridge. That
he had definitely given up work is clearly shown by the dispersal
of his material. The smaller neatly-executed cut of the Royal arms
went to his friend Peter Kaetz, who, taking it with him on his return
to Antwerp, used it in the edition of the Dutch Bible printed for
him there in 1525 by Hans Van Ruremonde. Apparently the same block
appears in an edition of Erasmus and Lily’s Grammar published at
Antwerp by Godfried van der Haeghen in 1527 for sale in St Paul’s
Churchyard. The fine border of the Galen also went to Antwerp and is
found eventually on the title-page of a Dutch Prognostication of 1536
printed by Hendrick Pietersen van Middleburch. From a comparison of a
recently-issued facsimile of the Dutch book with the original Cambridge
book, it is clear the border is identical in both. What has now to be
done is to trace it between 1522 and 1536. Lastly, the fine binding
roll which he possessed passed into the hands of Nicholas Speryng who
attempted to obliterate the initial I upon it and substitute an N. The
latest binding on which it is found in an unmutilated state is on a
book printed at Venice and finished on November 10, 1522, so that the
binding cannot be earlier than 1523. The mutilated tool is found used
with others belonging to Speryng on the binding of a book printed in
1524.
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