Christophe Plantin

See also: Plantin

Christophe Plantin , born with Saint-Avertin close to Turns in 1514 ~ 1520, was bookbinder and printer of reputation to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands (currently in Belgium). He learned his trade from bookbinder with Paris and, with Caen, the elements of typographical art. He worked for Gabriel de Zayas, secretary of Philippe II, as a bookbinder. He is famous for the publication of the Biblia polyglotta (1569 - 1572). He printed its first book in 1555. His/her son-in-law, Jean Moerentorf took again printing works. Christophe Plantin died in Antwerp in 1589.

Its press, Officina Plantiniana, survived entirely and became a museum in Antwerp (Musée Plantin-Moretus). Officina Plantiniana is regarded as the company of edition and the most important printing works which was ever established in Belgium.

Labore and Constantia

Christophe Plantin used three distinct marks. The third, that it use as from 1564, refers in the name of its printing works " With the Gold Compass ". It uses this mark with different framings to differentiate these various collections. This mark is always accompanied by its currency: " Labore and Constantia " (“By work and Perseverance”).

Plantin, to the example of Robert Estienne, exposed in front of its door its tests by promising a reward to those which would discover some faults there.

See too

Literature of the {{S|XVI|E}}
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Christophe Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus dynasty by the Catholic Institute of Toulouse
the site of the Museum Plantin-Moretus

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