DUPUY (J.), printer at Paris in 1549. See FEZANDAT.


ESTIENNE (ROBERT), printer-bookseller at Paris, from 1526 to 1550. Six marks at least, representing the olive-tree in different forms. Three of them are reproduced in M. Silvestre's work: nos. 162, 318,[457] and 319[458]; add to these the large folio mark that appears on the Bible of 1528[459] and that of 1540, previously described; a small mark which appears in the 16mo Virgil of 1549; and, lastly, a mark similar to Silvestre's no. 163 (except that the figure is bald), which appears in 'Caroli Stephani de Nutrimentis,' etc.[460] Probably most of these marks were engraved for Robert Estienne at the outset of his typographical career, that is to say, about 1526; he carried them with him to Geneva in 1550; and his son, the second Henri, used them in his turn, after his father's death, which occurred in 1559. It was undoubtedly the widow of Tory who engraved the mark (in different sizes) which appears, after 1544, on the Greek books printed with the royal types, and which represents a basilisk entwined about a lance.


ESTIENNE (CHARLES), printer and bookseller at Paris from 1551 to 1561. Three marks at least. Upon entering the typographical profession Charles adopted his brother's olive-tree; that is to say, he simply had copies made of Robert's marks, as he succeeded to his business. I have seen the first of these marks, similar to Silvestre's no. 163, in an octavo edition of P. Bunel's 'Epîtres familières,' printed by Charles in 1551; the second appears in a folio edition of Cicero, in four volumes, published by the same printer from 1551 to 1555[461]; and the third, like Silvestre's no. 162, in the 'Petit Dictionnaire français-latin' (quarto), published by Charles in 1559. It is probable that the second Robert used these same marks after his uncle's retirement in 1561.


FEZANDAT (MICHEL), printer-bookseller at Paris from 1541 to 1553. One mark (Silvestre, no. 423). This mark which, by way of allusion to the name of its owner, represents a pheasant (faisan) on a dolphin, with the letters M and F at the left and right, respectively, of the pheasant, was used without the initials in 1549, as may be seen on the title of 'Le Temple du chasteté,' printed in that year by Fezandat, in octavo.[462]