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Jean Picard was a French bookbinder, active around 1540. Picard is notable for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier. He may also have worked at the French royal bindery. While the Grolier bindings have long been sought after, the identities of the binders who made them were forgotten until twentieth-century scholarship threw light on Picard and other binders. The British Library's bindings catalogue attributes a number of bindings to Picard: they are almost all on books bound for Grolier around 1540 in Paris. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection. ==Picard and the Aldine Press== Some of Picard's bindings are on books in the celebrated editions of the classics by the Aldine Press. He appears to have had another connection with this press, as a man called Jean Picard managed its Parisian agency in the 1540s. Not all sources agree that the bookseller can be assumed to be the same person as the bookbinder. The bookseller Picard traded from premises in the Rue Saint-Jacques in the Latin Quarter, where he sold books printed in Venice on commission.〔''The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance''. Angela Nuovo〕 In 1547 he encountered financial problems and fled his creditors. The Aldine Press then appointed a printer called Le Riche as its new agent. Le Riche was replaced after a couple of years by the bookbinder Gomar Estienne, who had been working at the royal bindery, the so-called ''Atelier de Fontainebleau''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Picard (bookbinder)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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