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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 179

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—Frontispiece of a book from Plantins printing office.Metal engraving. Book followed, besides, the fate of its author. If the writer was burned, so was his book, as was the case with Etienne Dolet, born 1509 at Orleans, who having learnt typography i6o The Book. at Gryphiuss office, Lyons, and… … Fig. 99.—Mark of Etienne Dolet, printer at Lyons, 1542. consigned to the flames with its author at Geneva in 1553. Asingle copy was saved from the fire, and is now preserved inthe Bibliotheque Nationale; it is the identical copy annotatedby Colladon, the accuser of the unhappy Servetus, and…

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