Making Her Mark: Female Printers in Sixteenth-Century France

In this segment of From the Vaults, RBSCD Reference Librarian Marianna Stell explores a Book of Hours printed by Yolande Bonhomme, a sixteenth-century French woman who owned a printing shop in Paris. Stell asks (and answers!) the question: “Why might Yolande have continued to use her husband’s printer’s marks after she inherited his business?”