Willem Vorsterman

Willem Vorsterman (died 1543) was an early printer of books, active in Antwerp between 1504 and 1543. He published about 400 books in Dutch, Spanish, English, Latin, French and Danish, making him the second most productive printer in the Netherlands in the first half of the 16th century, behind Hillenius. His earliest production, between 1500 and 1520, consisted mainly of works of fiction in Dutch often in chapbook format, while he later expanded into other languages and genres, with more luxurious, illustrated editions. He entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1512 and was its dean in 1527 and 1542. His shop was in the "Golden Unicorn", near the Kammerpoort in Antwerp.

Published works 1504: Amerigo Vespucci, Mundus Novus 1506: John Cassian, Dit is der ouder vader collasie 1511 or earlier: Den Herbarius in dyetsche, reprint of a work published by Johann Veldener in Leuven in 1484 1514: Bethlem, Een devote meditacie op die passie ons liefs Heeren Jesu Christi, reprinted numerous times until 1540 1515: Mariken van Nieumeghen 1515: Saint Jerome, anthology of his letters, partially reprinted in 1533 1516: Margarieta van Lymborch 1517: Die rechte conste om alderhande wateren te destilleeren 1518–1525: Elckerlijc 1520: Een seer ghenoechlike ende amoroeze historie vanden eedelen Lansloet ende die scone Sandrijn 1520: Den droefliken strijt van Roncevale 1521: William Lily, Libellus de constructione octo orationis partium ad codicem germanicum pluribus locis restitutus 1522: John Fisher, Convuslio calumniarum Ulrichi Veleni Minhoniensis 1523: Robert Sherwood, Ecclesiastes latine ad veritatem hebraicam recognitus 1527: Fasciculus mirre 1527: Een redelijck bewijs en verwinninghe der dolinghen 1528: Biblia a Dutch translation of the full Bible: also known are editions from 1530, 1532, 1533, 1534 and 1542. This translation was based on the work of Luther. 1528: Joannes Custos Brechtanus, Syntaxis Brechtana de integro nuper recognita 1528: Pronosticatie, Dit is een seer wonderlijcke prophecie (also exists in French, same year) 1529: Sebastian Virdung, Livre plaisant et très utile... 1529: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French translation of the Bible 1529–1531: a number of works in Danish by Christiern Pedersen, then exiled in the Low Countries 1530: Petrus Sylvius, Tfundament der medicinen ende chyrurgien (reprint 1540) 1531: Anthonis De Roovere, Die excellente cronicke van Vlaanderen 1533: Juan Luis Vives, Dutch translation of the De subventione pauperum 1536: Beatus Rhenanus, Vita Erasmi 1537: Bernard of Clairvaux, Een suyverlijck boecxken (reprinted 1540) 1538: La noble science des joueurs d'espée 1538: Historie vander coninghinnen Sibilla 1540: De verloren sone 1542: Nicolaus van Esch, Dye groote evangelische peerle vol devoter ghebede