Jean Le Bourgeois

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Jean Le Bourgeois
Printer in Rouen, 1488–1501?

Imprimeur.

There are no dated books later than 1500 but the item recorded here seems likely to have been printed in 1501. The record in BnF Data states that he probably died in 1499 but the Gesamtkatalog considers the book catalogued here to have been printed after 1500. His material is said to have passed to Laurent Hostingue.


Addresses
References
BMC, viii, 394.
BnF Data: Jean Le Bourgeois
Malcolm Walsby, Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600, Leiden, Brill (2020).
Devices
Types
Name Size Dates Notes
Rot40 94 1501?
Initials
Size Dates
20 mm 1501?
Signatures
‘$.i.’–‘$.iii.’
Catchwords
None.

The following books were printed by Jean Le Bourgeois in Rouen

1501
Calpurnius Siculus, Titus.
Buccolica calphurnii poete clarissimi nuper per fratrem iohannem Caron Marchianensem exacta.
[Rouen]: [Colophon:] Impressa Rothomagi per Iohannem le bourgoys pro Roberto mace Cadomi commorante apud cimiterium sancti Petri, [1501].
4°: a–d⁸.
Printed in Rouen by Jean Le Bourgeois for Robert Macé in Caen.
[View full record]IA.43948 (lacks d3)

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