Guy Marchant

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Guy[1] Marchant was a printer of books, active in Paris from 1481, and especially at the end of the fifteenth century, and founder of a family business that lasted until the French Revolution.[2] Marchant himself is reported to have produced 170 incunabula.[3]

One of his most influential productions was the Compost et Kalendrier de Bergiers, a fore-runner of the perennial almanac.[4] It was translated into English in 1503, as The Kalender of Shepherds, and ran to at least 17 further editions.[5]

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  1. ^ Gui, Guyot
  2. ^ http://www.publicartinla.com/USCArt/Doheny/hayward/descr.html.
  3. ^ [1]. These include a Danse Macabre from 1485 (this PDF), works of Aristotle, the first letter of Christopher Columbus in 1493.[2]
  4. ^ Calendar and Compost of Shepherd (1931), edited by G. C. Heseltine, is an English edition.
  5. ^ Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), p.350. Thomas notes that it had astrological content, in the sense of describing the influence of planets on parts of the body, and a method of fortune telling.

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