Galliot du Pré explained

Galliot du Pré
Nationality:	French

Galliot du Pré (d. April 1560) was a Parisian bookseller and publisher.

In May 1514 the Royal Chancery of Louis XII granted du Pré the privilege of exclusive rights. This was confirmed in 1515 by Francis I.^[1]

Galliot du Pré's imprint device featured a ship with an angel blowing a trumpet, which issues the words "French: Vogue la Guallee" (or sometimes "French: la galee").^[2] The ship is a galiot, likely serving as a visual pun based on du Pré's first name.^[3]

Publications

• Le Grand Coustumier de France (1514)
• L'Instruction et manière de procéder ès cours du Parlement (1514)
• Les Grandes Chroniques de Bretaigne by Alain Bouchart (1514 bis 1531)
• les Mémoires by Philippe de Commynes (1524)
• les Annales et chroniques de France by Nicole Gilles (1525)
• les Œuvres by Alain Chartier (1529)
• Les dictz moraux des philosophes by Guillaume de Tignonville (1531)
• Libri de re rustica by Cato the Elder, Varro and Columella et Palladius (1533);
• Biblia sacra (1541, Folio);
• Les Divines institutions de Lactance Firmian traduites by René Fumé (1542, Folio);
• Tractatus juris regaliorum (1542, Folio);
• Tractatus duo de origine et usu jurisdictionum by Pierre Bertrand (1551).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rideau . Frédéric . Primary Sources on Copyright - Record Viewer . www.copyrighthistory.org . Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge . 18 September 2020.
2. Web site: Printer's Device of Galliot du Pré . Pitts Digital Image Archive . Emory University . 18 September 2020.
3. Book: Roberts, William . Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography . 1893 . Chiswick Press . London . Project Gutenberg.