Jean Picard (bookbinder)

Jean Picard was a French bookbinder, active in the 1540s. Picard, who favoured geometric designs, is notable for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier.

While the Grolier bindings have long been sought after, the identities of the binders who made them were forgotten until twentieth-century scholarship threw light on Picard and other binders. The British Library's bindings catalogue attributes a number of bindings to Picard: they are almost all on books bound for Grolier around 1540 in Paris. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has a larger collection. Picard may also have worked at the French royal bindery, which was very active under the patronage of Francis I.