LyonCompany of the Griffarins
1514-1570s
Brief history Journeymen printers organisation
Archive unknown status
Sources - Natalie
Zemon Davis, “A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France”, Economic History
Review, 2nd ser., 19,
no. 1 (1966), pp. 48-69
ParisConfrèrie de Saint Jean l’Evangeliste 1401
Brief history Unknown
Archive unknown status
Sources -
Hugh William Davies, Devices
of the Early Printers 1457-1560: Their History and Development (London: Grafton & Co., 1935), pp.153-4
- Léon Voet,
“The Printers’ Chapel in the Plantinian House”, The Library, 5th
ser., 15 (1961), pp. 1-14 (p.6)
-
David T. Pottinger, The
French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime 1500-1791
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp.107-10
Compagnie du Navire 1585
Brief history Although Martin (in translation) describes these organisations as “guilds”, he also describes them as “congers” and as “essentially Parisian association[s] of large booksellers” holding specific printing and publishing rights: Usages had “a huge business” in servicebooks for Spain [Martin (1993), ; Martin (1996), p.36]
Archive unknown status
Sources - Henri-Jean
Martin, Print, Power, and People in 17th-century
France, trans. by David Gerard (Metuchen, N.J.:
Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993), pp.36-37, 236-38
- Henri-Jean
Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership, 1585-1715, trans. by Paul
Saenger (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p.36
Compagnie des Usages 1586
Brief history Although Martin (in translation) describes these organisations as “guilds”, he also describes them as “congers” and as “essentially Parisian association[s] of large booksellers” holding specific printing and publishing rights: Usages had “a huge business” in servicebooks for Spain
Archive unknown status
Sources
- Henri-Jean Martin, Print, Power, and People in 17th-century France, trans. by David Gerard (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993), pp.36-37, 236-38
- Henri-Jean Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership, 1585-1715, trans. by Paul Saenger (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p.36
Syndical and Royal Chamber of Booksellers, Printers and Binders of Paris 1618-1686
Brief history Founded by royal letters patent; regulated apprenticeship, journeymen and admission to mastership; powers to search throughout Paris and to check imported books; 1686 bookbinders and gilders separated from booksellers and printers
Archive survives
Sources - George
Haven Putnam, Books and Their Makers during the Middle Ages, 2
vols (New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896-97), II.453-63
- Henri-Jean Martin, Print, Power, and People in 17th-century France, trans. by David Gerard (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993), pp.38-41
- Henri-Jean Martin, The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership, 1585-1715, trans. by Paul Saenger (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p.36
- David T. Pottinger, The French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime 1500-1791 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp.122ff
Rouen[Stationers’ Guild - “the Communaunté”] early seventeenth century
Brief history Included printers and booksellers
Archive unknown status
Sources - Henri-Jean Martin, Print, Power, and People in 17th-century France, trans. by David Gerard (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993)
Troyes[unknown name] ??-??
Brief history unknown
Archive unknown status
Sources - Louis Morin, Histoire Corporative des Artisans du Livre à Troyes (1900) [cited but no further information given by Henri-Jean Martin, Print, Power, and People in 17th-century France, trans. by David Gerard (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993)]
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