gallery 01
These images
register the contribution of the printer. Each firm had its own characteristic
device, but over the years, varied the iconography. They are here reproduced
as large as I can decently manage, to celebrate their extraordinary wealth
of detail and economy of means.
01. Richard
Harrison London,1562. In an edition of Calvin's Institution of
Christian Religion
02. Rembolt,
Paris, Paris,c1520. From an edition of Froissart. The elephant with
fortification attached is a familiar motif in Western Art, deriving
from the early plate in the early classic illustrated book, Hypnerotomachia
Poliphilii
03. Amboise
Girault, Paris, 1528/9 in an edition of Le Maire des Belges .The
Pelican feeding its young on blood from its breast is a traditional
symbol of selfless charity.
04.1548
two devices from books printed by Aldus in Venice, on the left for
a Greek Dictionary of 1549 and on the right a Latin Dictionary of 1526/7
05. Gorgonzola
in Milan in 1514, for a book on Terentius.
06. Device
of Wolfgang Stoeckel of Munich for a book published in 1515.
07 Paulus
Guarini and J.J. de Benedictus. printed and published in Forli, 1495.
08. Melchior
Lotter, Leipzig, 1513.
09. Wynkyn
de Worde, London,1533.To Walter Hilton's Scala Perfectionis.
10.Froissart's
Chronicles, the 1514 Paris edition by Guillaume Eustace.
11. R.Gourmont
1506 ; printed often in red at the front and black at the back.
12. T.Martens,
Louvain 1516
13. J.Petit,
Paris, 1506.
14. Georg
Wolf, Paris, 1494.
15. Rembolt
Paris 1527
16. Morgiani
and Petri, Firenze, 1495.
17. device
used by the stationer Henry Pepwell, the last of the booksellers at
the sign of the Trinity in St.Paul's Churchyard, London - here on his
copy of a book before 1523. He was mentioned in the will of Wynken
de Worde in 1534.
18. left
Plato de Benedictis, Bologna 1495 and right Bened.Hectoris, Bologna,
1499.
19. two
devices by Hornken for editions of Apuleius published in Paris - left
1512, and right 1517
20. P.Mareschal and B.Chaussard, Lyons c 1496
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