Category: History - Other
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The Aldine family come at the head of the Venetian printers, not only in the extreme beauty of their typographical work, but also in the matter of Marks. The first (and rarest)...
2. Chapter 2One of the most important and interesting phases in connection with Printers’ Marks is undoubtedly the _motif_ of the pictorial embellishment. Both the precise origin and the ob...
4. Chapter 4To attempt to identify the designers of even a selection of the best Printers’ Marks would be but to embark on a wild sea of conjecture. The initials of the engravers, which occ...
3. Chapter 3M. Paul Delalain has touched upon this exceedingly abstract phase of Printers’ Marks in the third _fascicule_ of his “Inventaire des Marques d’Imprimeurs,” without, as he himsel...
7. Chapter 7The Estienne or Etienne family is probably the most important and interesting of the sixteenth century printers of Paris. Silvestre reproduces twenty Marks which one or other of...
5. Chapter 5The three Marks of Copland make allusion to the roses which appeared as a sign to his shop. The most elaborate design is an upright parallelogram within which appears a flourish...
9. Chapter 9If it could be proved that “Het boeck van Tondalus visioen” was, as has been stated, printed at Antwerp in 1472, by Mathias Van der Goes, the claim of Antwerp to be regarded as...
6. Chapter 6The natural result, moreover, of this decline was, in the following century, followed by what practically amounts to extinction; and the few exceptions to which we shall refer,...
8. Chapter 8Of the other Alsatian printers we have only room to refer to two examples. Thomas Anshelm (or Anshelmi Badensis) is perhaps the most eminent of the early Hagenau printers, his b...
11. Chapter 11We give two of the several Marks used by one of the most prolific of the younger publishers, Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, the one is simply his initials, and the more elaborate example...
1. Chapter 1Produced by Louise Hope, Stephen Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The I...