ALARD (GUILLAUME), bookseller at Paris in 1550. See FEZANDAT.
BADE (CONRAD), printer and bookseller at Paris from 1546 to 1560, when he withdrew to Geneva for religious reasons.—One mark, which appears on the first edition of Théodore de Bèze's 'Poemata' (1548); the volume contains also a portrait of the author signed with the double cross. Conrad's mark, like that of his father, Josse Bade, represents a printing-press. It contains also the words 'Prelum ascensianum'; but, instead of being inscribed in a cartouche on the press, they are in two cartouches, one at the top, the other at the bottom, of the border (Silvestre, no. 867). When Conrad betook himself to Geneva, Eloi Gibier,[449] a printer of Orléans, bought the mark. It afterwards passed to Fabian Hotot, a printer in the same city, who was using it in 1609; but before using it he had the word 'Ascensianum' removed.
BESSAULT (THIBAUT, and JEAN, his son), booksellers at Paris. See REGNAULT (BARBE).
BONFONS (JEAN), bookseller at Paris from 1548 to 1572.—One mark (Silvestre, no. 125), representing a dove on a tree, within a circle formed by a serpent, and on the outside of the circle this sentence from the Bible: 'Estote prudentes sicut serpentes, et simplices sicut columbæ.' I have seen it in a quarto edition of 'Le Petit Jehan de Saintré,' published by Bonfons in 1553, in gothic type.