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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. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection.

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  • 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. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection. (en)
  • Jean Picard est un relieur français de la Renaissance, actif entre 1539 et 1547 environ. Il est connu pour avoir relié de nombreux livres pour le bibliophile Jean Grolier. Il a également confectionné des reliures pour les rois de France. Picard est associé à un style décoratif à entrelacs géométriques, favorisé par Grolier. Il a également travaillé sur d'autres styles. (fr)
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  • 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. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection. (en)
  • Jean Picard est un relieur français de la Renaissance, actif entre 1539 et 1547 environ. Il est connu pour avoir relié de nombreux livres pour le bibliophile Jean Grolier. Il a également confectionné des reliures pour les rois de France. Picard est associé à un style décoratif à entrelacs géométriques, favorisé par Grolier. Il a également travaillé sur d'autres styles. (fr)
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  • Jean Picard (relieur) (fr)
  • Jean Picard (bookbinder) (en)
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