Jean Picard (bookbinder)

This article is about the bookbinder. For the 17th century French astronomer, see Jean Picard.

Jean Picard was a French bookbinder, active around 1540. Picard is notable for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier. He may also have worked at the French royal bindery.

While the Grolier bindings have long been sought after, the identities of the binders who made them were forgotten until twentieth-century scholarship threw light on Picard and other binders. The British Library's bindings catalogue attributes a number of bindings to Picard: they are almost all on books bound for Grolier around 1540 in Paris.[1] The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection.[2]

  1. ^ "M. T. Ciceronis de Philosophia". Database of bookbindings. British Library. Retrieved 24 April 2015. (binding dated circa 1540 on book published "In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani": Venice, 1523)
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