Fig. 398.—Fac-simile of a page of a “Livre d’Heures” printed in Paris, in 1512, by Simon Vostre.
not less active in Venice, where it seems to have been imported by that Nicholas Jenson whom Louis XI. had sent to Gutenberg, and whom for a long time even the Venetians looked on as the inventor of the art with which he had clandestinely become acquainted at Mayence. From the
Fig. 399.—The Mark of Gérard Lecu, Printer at Gouwe (1482).
Fig. 400.—The Mark of Fust and Schœffer, Printers. (Fifteenth Century.)
year 1469, however, Jenson had no longer the monopoly of printing in Venice, where John de Spire had arrived, bringing also from Mayence all the improvements Gutenberg and Schœffer had obtained. This art having ceased to be a secret in the city of the Doges, great
Fig. 401.—Mark of Arnold de Keyser, Printer at Ghent.
(1480.)