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  • In 1826 he gives his designation and title as "H. Balzac, imprimeur, Rue des Marais, St. - Germain, 31," and we have already seen that he was entered on the school register as H.nore Balzac, and that his parents at that time called themselves M. and Mme. Balzac.

    Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

  • 'In a note to “Couplets on M. Laisney, imprimeur a Peronne,” he says: “It was in his printing-house that I was put to prentice; not having been able to learn orthography, he imparted to me the taste for poetry, gave me lessons in versification, and corrected my first essays.”

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

  • 'In a note to "Couplets on M. Laisney, _imprimeur à Peronne_," he says: "It was in his printing-house that I was put to prentice; not having been able to learn orthography, he imparted to me the taste for poetry, gave me lessons in versification, and corrected my first essays."

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

  • But the printer who does the most business -- or rather whose business lies in the lower department of the art, in bringing forth what are called _chap books_ -- is LECRENE-LABBEY -- _imprimeur-libraire et marchand de papiers_.

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • It is no excuse for Barrois, to say, he could not get his _imprimeur_ to proceed.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

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