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Letters patent for the Ghent printer Adrien Colier granting the right of printing and selling books, issued Brussels 16 March 1778 in the name of empress Maria Theresa.
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Bifolium, c. 33,5 x 48,5 cm: [2] pp. + 2 bl. pp., on vellum, in French, signed "P. Marias" and countersigned "de Reul", large red wax seal attached in metal box (folded, outside and margins soiled). In good condition.
Reply to a request by "Adrien Colier bourgeois et habitant de nostre ville de Gand, tendant à obtenir nos lettres d’octroi [...] exercer les fontions d’imprimeur et de libraire [...] et y vendre et distribuer toutes sortes de livres non suspects [...]". Adrien Colier, a former apprentice of P.-F. de Goesin (1762-1778) was active as a printer and bookseller 1787-1808.
Ref. Bibl. gant. IV:248.
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