BUON (GABRIEL). See PORTE (MAURICE DE LA).
CALVARIN (SIMON), printer-bookseller at Paris, from 1553 to 1593. Two marks, representing a woman, seated, surrounded by the paraphernalia of the arts and sciences, and holding in one hand a palm-tree decorated with three wreaths. I have seen one of these marks, the larger, in an edition of Rodolphe Agricola's book entitled: 'De Inventione dialectica libri tres' (quarto, 1558), on the title-page of which is this imprint: 'Parisiis, ex officina Simonis Calvarini, in vico Belovaco, ad Virtutis insigne.'[450] The smaller one appears at the end of a book entitled: 'Conservation de santé et prolongation de vie, etc., composé premierement par noble homme H. [Hieronime] Monteux, conseiller et medecin ordinaire du roi François II, et nouvellement traduit en nostre langue fraçoise par maistre Claude de Valgelas, docteur medecin, etc. Paris, chez Simon Calvarin, rue Saint-Jacques, à la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.' This is a 16mo, of which there is a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale. This Simon was, I have no doubt, a son of Prigent Calvarin, printer at Paris from 1524 to 1582, whose mark is very different (Silvestre, no. 137).[451] It represents two persons holding a shield which hangs from a vine, with these sentences surrounding them: 'Deum time,' 'Pauperes sustine,' 'Finem respice,' 'Prigent Calvarin.' Simon, having set up for himself during his father's lifetime, had to adopt a different mark.
CHAUDIÈRE (REGNAULT), bookseller at Paris from 1516 to 1546, in the latter year succeeded to the printing business of Simon de Colines, whose marks 'au Temps' he used thereafter. He had a new one engraved in Tory's establishment, with the same figure, but with a slightly different motto: it reads: 'Virtus sola aciem retundit istam.' This mark appears in the edition of the comedies of Terence printed in 1546. See COLINES (SIMON DE).
COLINES (SIMON DE), printer-bookseller at Paris from 1520 to 1546. Four marks at least. See the two already described in the preceding section, under 1520-1521, as forming a part of title-pages, and numbers 80 and 329 of M. Silvestre's 'Marques typographiques.' The last two passed in 1546 into the hands of Regnault Chaudière, a bookseller since 1516. Chaudière had married Colines's daughter by the widow of Henri Estienne, and by virtue of the connection inherited his father-in-law's printing-office and bookshop. He himself printed, in 1546-1547, under the Latin name Calderius, an edition of the comedies of Terence[452]; at the end is M. Silvestre's no. 329, which (like no. 80) represents Time armed with a scythe, and this devise in a scroll: 'Hanc aciem sola retundit virtus.' Chaudière, who had previously used another mark (Silvestre, no. 96), employed thenceforth this one with the figure of Time, and handed it down to his successors.[453] In 1548 he published an octavo catalogue of his own books and those of Simon de Colines—'tum ab Simone Colinæi, tum ab Calderio excusi.'[454] The following is, in my opinion, the order in which Simon de Colines's various marks were engraved by Tory: In the first place, in 1520, the one with the rabbits, or conils, which it has been said that Colines adopted as a play upon his own name; but this conjecture seems to me the more improbable because these same rabbits had been used on the sign of Henri Estienne's shop as early as 1502.[455] However that may be, Colines seems to have retained this mark during all the time that he occupied Henri Estienne's house. When he turned over that abode, in 1525, to Robert Estienne, who established himself in business on the paternal premises, Colines went a little farther down rue de Beauvais, and took for his sign the 'Soleil d'or,' which appears on the second mark; finally, in 1528, he adopted the one with the figure of Time, which was afterwards adopted by his son-in-law, Regnault Chaudière.
