Henri-Louis Baudrier (pronounced [bo.dʁi.je]; 29 May 1815 – 17 June 1884) was a French bibliographer and magistrate, and the co-author of Bibliographie lyonnaise: recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle par le Président Baudrier, publiées et continuées par J. Baudrier, an encyclopaedic work published in eleven volumes between 1895 and 1914. The work focused extensively on the bookselling and publishing industry of 16th-century Lyon, featuring entries on more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were printers, bookbinders, and booksellers based in the French city.
Born into a family of magistrates in Lyon, Baudrier embarked on his judicial career in 1846 as a substitute judge, though he was dismissed just two years later. By 1849, he had been reinstated as a magistrate, eventually rising to the position of Court Counsellor (conseiller à la Cour) in 1856 and President of the Chamber (président de chambre) in 1869. A distinguished bibliophile and avid book collector, Baudrier amassed a library of more than 8,000 volumes, primarily composed of 15th- and 16th-century Lyonnais imprints, which he left behind upon his death in Paris in 1884.
Notes
- transl. Bibliography of Lyon: Research on the printers, booksellers, bookbinders, and founders of letters in Lyon in the 16th century by President Baudrier, published and continued by J. Baudrier; "J. Baudrier" refers to Henri-Louis Baudrier's son, Julien Baudrier [ja] (1860–1915).
References
- ^ Béghain, Patrice (2009). "BAUDRIER Henri et Julien". In Thévenon, Bruno (ed.). Dictionnaire historique de Lyon (in French). Les cuisinières-Sobbollire. pp. 117–118. ISBN 978-2-915266-65-8.
- Maclean, Ian (2009). "Chapter Nine: Murder, Debt and Retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish Book Trade: The Beraud-Michel-Ruiz Affair, 1586–1591". Learning and the Market Place: Essays in the History of the Early Modern Book. Brill. p. 227. ISBN 9789004175501 – via Google Books.
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