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Geofroy Tory / Painter and engraver; first royal printer; reformer of orthography and typography under François I.

Chapter 26: A LIST OF THE REPRODUCTIONS IN THIS VOLUME OF DESIGNS ATTRIBUTED TO TORY BY M. BERNARD.
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A detailed scholarly biography and study of a sixteenth-century French painter-engraver who served as royal printer, documenting his life, artistic production, and efforts to reform orthography and typography under François I. The text surveys his engraved decorations, typographic ornaments, borders, letterforms, and printed editions, and includes a systematic bibliography and an extensive iconography with reproductions and commentary on attributions. It also discusses contemporary printing practices and methods used to reproduce the illustrations, and combines descriptive biography, critical analysis, and cataloguing to reassess the artisan's contributions to early modern French book design and print culture.


A LIST OF THE REPRODUCTIONS IN THIS VOLUME
OF DESIGNS ATTRIBUTED TO TORY
BY M. BERNARD.

REPRODUCED
ON PAGE
  DESCRIBED
ON PAGE
  Design on covers: from the binding of a copy of
Petrarch, Venice, 1525, in the Library of the British
Museum.
47
I The letter Alpha: from the Greek alphabet of Robert Estienne. 189
III Border: from the title-page of 'Champ fleury.' 192
IV Border: from Ovid's 'Tristia,' 'Fasti,' etc. Paris, Colines, 1541.  
V Frieze: from the Works of Justin Martyr. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1551 (slightly reduced). 189
V Initial: from the Greek alphabet of Robert Estienne (1541). 189
IX Border: from the Colines Hours of 1543. 210
X-XIX Borders in niello: from the Colines Hours of 1543. 211
XXI Border used by Colines on the title-pages of various works. 174
1 Frieze: from a border of the Colines Hours of 1543 (reduced). 210
1 Initial letter L: from folio 1 of 'Champ fleury.' 22
6 Monogram of 'Civis.' 6
12 Pot Cassé, as printed in Tory's poem on his daughter's death. 12
20 Pot Cassé, as used by Tory on bindings. 20
21 Pot Cassé: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 43. 21
23 Letters I and K, by Jean Perreal: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 46. 23
45 Tory's autograph, on Manuscript of Cicero's orations against Verres: from Bernard. 45
45-47 Various forms of the Pot Cassé. 45-47
48 Letter A with the 'lisflambe': from 'Champ fleury.' 192
49 Border: from 'Champ fleury.' Afterwards used on various works. 196
50-51 Triumph of Apollo and the Muses: from 'Champ fleury,' folios 29 verso and 30 recto. 192
100 Arms of France: from 'Champ fleury' verso of title. 192
101-117 Borders and illustrations: from the Hours of 1524-1525; from the copy in the British Museum. 109-116
129 The Visitation: from Mallard's octavo Hours of 1542. Bernard describes only the octavo edition of 1541. 129, 218
130 Border: from title-page of Macault's translation of Diodorus Siculus. 136
137 Mark of Pierre Roffet. 140, 285
140 Border of title: 'Isocratis Oratoris dissertissimi sermo,' etc. Paris, Simonem Colinæum, 1529.
Not mentioned by Bernard.
 
141 The 'Gallic Hercules': from 'Champ fleury,' folio 3. 192
152 Allegorical letter Z: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 65. 193
153 Frieze (slightly reduced). See under page v. 189
171 Coronation of the Virgin: from the quarto Hours of 1527. 124
172 Frieze (slightly reduced). See under page v. 189
172 Monogram: from Vostre's Hours of 1515; from Bernard. 172
179 Monogram of Tory. 179
183 Monogram of Tory: from 'The Labours of Hercules'; from Bernard.  
186-188 Floriated (Roman) letters engraved for Robert Estienne. 185
190-191 Floriated (Greek) letters: engraved for Robert Estienne. 189
193 Letter Y: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 63. 193
194 Greek Alphabet: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 71. 193
195 Latin Alphabet: from 'Champ fleury,' folio 72. 193
198 Title-page of the Aristophanes of 1528, with the sign of Gilles de Gourmont and the Gourmont arms. 197
206 Frontispiece of Macault's translation of Diodorus Siculus. 205
209-211 Borders: from Colines quarto Hours of 1543. 210
233 Portrait of Theodore de Bèze: from 'Theodori Bezæ Vezelii Poemata,' 1548. 233
234 Portrait of Luchinus, Duke of Milan: from Pauli Jovii Novocomensis, etc., 1549. 235
236 A man on horseback: from the Entrée de Henri II à Paris, 1549. Usually attributed to Bernard Salomon
(Le petit Bernard).
237
240 A fleet of ships: from 'Gerard d'Euphrate,' 1549. 241
263 Frontispiece of 'Textus de Sphæra' Joannis de Sacrobosco. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1527 (reduced).
Not mentioned by Bernard.
 
264 Mark of Philippe Le Noir. 279
265 Frieze (slightly reduced.) See under page v. 189
265 Mark of the Marnefs. 265
266 Mark of Conrad Bade. 266
268 Mark of Simon de Colines. 268
269 Mark of Simon de Colines. 268
269 Mark of Gilles Corrozet. 269
270 Mark of Mathieu David. 270
271 Mark of Robert Estienne. 271
272 Mark of Robert Estienne. 272
273 Mark of Michel Fezandat. 272
274 Mark of Gilles de Gourmont. 274
277 Mark of Louis Grandin. 277
278 Mark of Charlotte Guillard. 277
281 Mark of Sebastien Nivelle. 280
283 Mark of Nicole Paris. 283
285 Mark of Gilles Robinot. 285
286 Mark of Jean de Roigny. 285
287 Mark of Thielman Vivian. 287
288 The Triumph of Death: from the quarto Hours of 1527. 124
289 Frieze: from Orontius Finæus. Colines, 1544 (slightly reduced). Not mentioned by Bernard.  
289 Initial G, with Lorraine cross: from the Roman alphabet engraved for Robert Estienne. 185
325 Border: from Robert Estienne's Greek testament, folio, 1550. Not mentioned by Bernard.  
338 Letter Omega: from the Greek alphabet, engraved for Robert Estienne. 189
339 Illustration from Mallard's octavo Hours of 1542. 129, 218

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PRINTERS' PREFACE. PAGE V
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. IX
PART I BIOGRAPHY. 1
PART II. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 49
I. WORKS WRITTEN OR ANNOTATED BY TORY. 50
II. BOOKS OF HOURS PUBLISHED BY TORY FOR HIMSELF. 101
III. WORKS PUBLISHED BY TORY FOR FRANÇOIS I. 130
IV. WORKS PRINTED BY TORY FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS. 137
PART III. ICONOGRAPHY. 141
I. MANUSCRIPTS DECORATED WITH MINIATURES BY TORY. 153
II. PRINTED BOOKS ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY TORY OR HIS PUPILS. 172
III. MARKS OF BOOKSELLERS AND PRINTERS WITH THE LORRAINE CROSS. 265
APPENDICES.  
I. CONCERNING GEOFROY TORY'S FAMILY. 289
II. VERSES IN HONOUR OF TORY. 292
III. TORY ADMITTED AS TWENTY-FIFTH BOOKSELLER TO THE UNIVERSITY. 294
IV. CONCERNING TORY'S VARIOUS DOMICILES IN PARIS. 295
V. OF THE FIRST USE OF THE APOSTROPHE, ETC. 295
VI. TRANSLATION OF THE LETTERS PATENT APPOINTING CONRAD NÉOBAR KING'S PRINTER FOR GREEK. 299
VII. EXTRACT FROM LETTERS PATENT APPOINTING DENIS JANOT KING'S PRINTER. 302
VIII. LIST OF KING'S PRINTERS IN PARIS FROM THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTION OF THAT OFFICE. 303
IX. CONCERNING THE KING'S BINDERS AND LIBRARIANS. 308
X. LATIN PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THIS BOOK. 311
INDEX. 325
LIST OF REPRODUCTIONS. 333


PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS FOR
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
CCCLXX COPIES.

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