I have also to thank M. Martinus Nijhoff, of the Macmillan and Bowes of Cambridge, the loan of several blocks from theįoregoing work, as well as that of John Siberch, the first Cambridge Printer’s Mark in Scotland, but, through the courtesy of Messrs. I have obtained not only some useful information regarding the Dickson and Edmonds’ “Annals of Scottish Printing” The monographs on the various printers, Plantin, Elzevir, Aldus, and the Invaluable works as Brunet’s “Manual,” Mr. The works named in the “Bibliography” at the end, besides such Well as a utilitarian side, I hope that it will again become moreĪs regards my authorities: I have freely availed myself of nearly all Indicated in the last chapter prove that the fashion has an artistic as Regarding it as a wholly unnecessary superfluity. Nearly every tradesman of importance in thisĬountry has some sort of trade mark but most printers agree in The practice of using a Printer’s Mark is an extremelyĬommendable one, not merely as a relic of antiquity, but from an Interesting volume might be written concerning modern continentalĮxamples. Of any note indulges in the luxury of a Mark of some sort, and an Nearly every French printer and publisher My excuse for not including, with a very few exceptions, any modernĮxamples from the Continent. That this volume has considerably exceeded its intended limit must be Lyons in February, 1499, eight years earlier, which contains cuts of the Unique copy of an edition of the “Danse Macabre” printed anonymously at “is the earliest picture of a printing press,” Mr. P. 116 of this volume that the Mark of Bade Kristeller’s monograph on theĭevices of the Italian Printers. Illustration of books in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Printer’s Mark as a side issue in the history of the decoration and Alfred Pollard’s “Early Illustrated Books,” anĪdmirable volume which, however, only deals incidentally with the Well as for nearly thirty illustrations in the chapter on German KarlĪ. Barack (to whom I am indebted for much valuable information as Handsome work, worthy to rank with the “Elsässische Büchermarken bisĪnfang des 18. Italienischen Buchdrucker- und Verlegerzeichen, bis 1525,” a very Since the text of this book was printed, however, two additions haveīeen made to the literature of its subject: Dr. The Mark itself and thirdly, the geographical importance of the city or Importance of the printer secondly, the artistic value or interest of Selection of the illustrations is of a threefold character: first, the Only one book on the subject, Berjeau’s “Early Dutch, German,Īnd English Printers’ Marks,” has appeared in thisĬountry, and this, besides being out of print and expensive, isĭestitute of descriptive letterpress. Has been written with a view to supplying a readable but accurateĪccount of this neglected chapter in the history of art andīibliography and it appeals with equal force to the artist orĬollector. Several typical classes of Book-plates (Ex-Libris). Interest, as well as of considerable value in supplementing an importantĬlass of illustrations to the printed books, and showing the origin of Of these examples are of the greatest bibliographical and general The most interesting in connection with the early printers, who, usingĭevices at first purely as trade marks for the protection of their booksĪgainst the pirate, soon began to discern their ornamental value, and,Ĭonsequently, employed the best available artists to design them. An unquestionable exception occurs, however, HERE are few phases of typography open to theĬharge of being neglected. In most browsers they will therefore appear a little larger than originally printed. Technical Note: The illustrations were scanned at 400ppi and scaled to 25% by pixel count. To display in this way are collected at the end of Words split across line breaks are shown with or without The texts of most pictured Marks will appear in plain type if you Typographical errors are shown with mouse-hover popups. Inconsistent capitalization of “mark” is as in the original. Lead to the specific illustration, not to its original location. In the body text and the List of Illustrations, links Page numbers in italics show the original location of First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “fileĮncoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraphĪppear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailableįonts.
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