Guy Marchant (also ''Gui'' or ''Guyot''; in Latin ''Guido Mercator'') was a printer of books, active in Paris from 1483 to 1505/1506. He had received a university education as a Master of Arts and is recorded as being a priest.

Philippe Renouard Philippe Ernest Augustin Renouard (15 September 1862 in Paris – 2 October 1934 in Paris) was a French bookseller and bibliographer, specialist of the 16th century. Biography A grandson of Charles Renouard and son of Alfred Renouard, founder ...

, ''Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens, libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d’imprimerie depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie à Paris (1470) jusqu’à la fin du seizième siècle''. (Paris, 1965), 293. He was succeeded by his nephew Jean Marchant (1504–1516). He worked at first at an address in the Champ gaillart behind the Collège de Navarre. In 1493 he was at the sign of the Lily (''ad intersignium floris lilii'') in the rue Saint Jacques. From 1499 he worked at an address called Beauregard (''in Bellovisu'') behind the

Collège de Boncourt The Collège de Boncourt, in the (now) 5th arrondissement of Paris, rue Bordet or Bordeille (modern rue Descartes), was established in 1353 by Pierre Becoud (which became "Boncourt" by alteration) History During the 16th century, comedies and ...

where his nephew Jean continued to work. Marchant used six different printer's devices, several showing a shoemaker's workshop. Most of these devices have the motto ''Sola fides sufficit'' (where the word ''sola'' is a musical rebus with the notes Sol and La). A group of shepherds

The ISTC Database records about 190 editions printed by (or attributed to) the press of Guy Marchant up to the year 1500. A further 10 or 12 were printed in the sixteenth century before the business was taken over by Jean Marchant. Marchant's typographical material is enumerated in ''BMC'' volume 8. Marchant's output was mainly of moderate-sized devotional texts but he is particularly famous for a series of works with 'magnificent woodcuts, including some of the finest illustrative work of the period'. These include five editions of the ''

Danse macabre The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of ...

'' and seven editions of the ''Compost et kalendrier des bergers'' and an edition of the ''Calendrier des bergères''. The ''Calendrier'' was translated into Scots English by

Alexander Barclay Dr Alexander Barclay (c. 1476 – 10 June 1552) was a poet and clergyman of the Church of England, probably born in Scotland. Biography Barclay was born in about 1476. His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who w ...

(''The Kalendayr of the shyppars'', published by

Antoine Vérard Antoine Vérard (active 1485–1512) was a late 15th-century and early 16th-century French publisher, bookmaker and bookseller. Life The colophon of a 1485 edition of the ''Catholicon abbreviatum'', the first French-Latin dictionary, which da ...

in 1503); an English version was produced in 1506.STC 22407 and 22408.

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''Le grand Calendrier et compost des bergers''
woodcuts from the edition printed in Troyes in 1529 by Nicolas Le Rouge: illustrated walk-through of the months. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marchant, Guy French printers Printers of incunabula 15th-century French people Year of birth missing Year of death missing