François L’Anglois

Printer, bookseller, and publisher
François L’Anglois was a French painter, engraver, printer, bookseller, publisher and art dealer, best known for his 1620 book Livre de Fleurs, a compendium of garden flowers, birds and insects.

L'Anglois combined his artistic and entrepreneurial skills whose best work was Livre de Fleurs, prepared in his shop in Paris. The title page for was designed by L'Anglois and engraved by German engraver Léonard Gaultier, who also worked in Paris, while other plates were all drawn and engraved by L'Anglois himself. One of his other notable works is Pierre de Sainte-Marie Magdeleine's Traitté d'horlogiographie, published in 1645, a treatise on timekeeping, methods for determining the time both by day and by night, the timing of tides, how to cut geometrically regular shapes from stone or wood, and all aspects of measurement and projection.