{"product_id":"charlotte-guillard-printer-psalterium-davidicum-graecolatinum-1545","title":"[Charlotte Guillard, printer] - Psalterium Davidicum Græcolatinum (1545)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePsalterium Davidicum Græcolatinum, ad fidem veterum exemplarium, atque adeò codicis Græci manuscripti D. Victoris, locis quàm multis repurgatum et nitori suo restitutum\u003c\/em\u003e...Paris : [Guillaume Des Bois], Charlotte Guillard, 1545.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(115 x 80 mm) pp. [16],279. *8, **8, a-z8, A-M8 (final two leaves blank). CC. Printed in two columns, one Latin, one Greek, with printed marginal annotations on the side, occationally trimmed. Kalens and Index of Psalms printed with red letters. Fore edges in marble. Full calf binding (18th century?) with some wear to edges and cracked hinge, but still solidly bound. Title on table in gilt on spine. Minimal contemporary reader intervention: an addition to kalens in margin, underlining of colophon. 18th century marbled endpapers. Blue silk-like bookmark present. Endbands lacking. Overall GOOD condition for 16th century work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColophon: Parisiis Exudebat Carola Guillard anno millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo quinto. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBP16_111952, Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle conservées à Paris..., Paris, 2003, n° 2228; CERL cni00098820 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe printer of this small Psalter, Charlotte Guillard (c. 1480s – 1557), was one of the most important early female printers in sixteenth-century Paris. She directed the Soleil d’Or (“Golden Sun”) press on the Rue Saint-Jacques in the Latin Quarter—the heart of the Parisian book trade—from the death of her first husband, Berthold Rembolt, and later in her own right after the death of her second husband, Claude Chevallon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuillard was not the first woman ever to work in printing, but she was the first woman printer in France whose career is significantly documented. Her output was notable for its scholarly focus: most of her editions were theological, legal, or humanist works in Latin and Greek intended for an academic and clerical readership rather than popular devotional texts or chivalric romances. After Chevallon’s death in 1537 she printed at least 158 editions under her own name, often using the Latin feminine form Excudebat Carola Guillard to assert her authorship, which we see as the colophon of this book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuillard’s career demonstrates exceptional business skill and editorial judgment in a period when workshop ownership and intellectual enterprise were dominated by men, and her press helped disseminate important Renaissance humanist and theological works across Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee: Stell, Library of Congress, 'Tantalizingly Incomplete: Charlotte Guillard and Erasmus of Rotterdam in 1546', 2003; Coker, Caxtonian, 'Charlotte Guillard,' 2022; CERL Thesaurus, 'Charlotte Guillard,' 2024; Beech, Renaissance Quarterly, 'Charlotte Guillard: A Sixteenth-Century Business Woman', 1983\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mobilis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598352728256,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/8273\/0176\/files\/1305_1.jpg?v=1772411473","url":"https:\/\/www.mobilisbooks.com\/products\/charlotte-guillard-printer-psalterium-davidicum-graecolatinum-1545","provider":"Mobilis Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}