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{{Short description|French humanist bookseller-printer (c.1518–1589)}}
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__NOTOC__<!--{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}-->[[File:Lione, guillaume rouillé, bibbia vulgata, 1566 (10.B.1.4) 00.JPG|thumb|Edition of the [[Vulgate]] by Guillaume Rouillé, 1566]]
'''Guillaume Rouillé''' ({{IPA-fr|ɡi.jom ʁu.je}}; {{lang-la|'''Gulielmus Rovillium'''|italic=no}}; {{circa}} 1518{{snd}}1589), also called '''Roville'''<ref>The printer's preface to his famous ''Promptuaire des médalles des plus renommées personnes'' is headed "Guillaume Roville au lecteur".</ref> or '''Rovillius''', was one of the most prominent [[Humanism|humanist]] bookseller-[[Printer (publishing)|printer]]s in 16th-century [[Lyon]]. He invented the pocket book format called the ''[[sextodecimo]]'', printed with sixteen leaves to the folio sheet, half the size of the [[octavo]] format, and published many works of history and poetry as well as medicine, in addition to his useful compilations and handbooks.<ref>A useful biography is Natalie Z. Davis, "Publisher Guillaume Rouillé: Businessman and Humanist", in R.J. Schoeck, ed. ''Editing Sixteenth-Century Texts'', (Toronto, 1966) pp. 72-112.</ref>
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