From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Students of early printing will be indebted for decades to come to Fred Schreiber for his fine catalogue of the achievement of Simon de Colines, French Renaissance printer of the early sixteenth century. The author calls his work "a representative sampling" to distinguish it from a complete bibliography of the printer's life work. His sub-title delineates the scope of the catalogue, "An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 15204546." Building on the century-old standard bibliography of de Colines by Philippe Renouard, Schreiber describes each of his 230 examples in ...