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François Fontenay specializes in quality editions of devotional books, university textbooks, and the works classical authors.

Delivery by peddler to nearby German, Swiss, and Italian towns available.

To all patrons in the provinces:

In Lyon, visit the shop of Paul Fontenay, a cousin of the well-known Paris printer François. Illustrated books a specialty. Many books made with imported woodblocks carved by German and Swiss artists.

News from around the World of Print: Congratulations to Juan Pablo on opening the first print shop in the New World, in the Spanish colonial town of Mexico City in 1539. (Juan is also known in his native Italy as Giovanni Paoli.)

Wanted: Linen or cotton rags for papermaking.

Large quantities needed.