Printer's mark
Aprinter's mark,device,emblemor insignia is asymbolthat was used as atrademarkby earlyprintersstarting in the 15th century.
The first printer's mark is found in the 1457Mainz PsalterbyJohann FustandPeter Schöffer.[1]One of the most well-known old printer's marks is thedolphin and anchor,first used by theVenetianprinterAldus Manutiusas his mark in 1502.[2]
The database Printers' Devices of the Ancient Book Section of the Library of theUniversity of Barcelona,was launched in October 1998.[3]TheUniversity of Floridalibraries also provide digital access to printers' devices and include TheUniversity of Chicagodevices that have appeared on the cover of their publicationThe Library Quarterly.[4]
Printers' devices have been incorporated in American library buildings, as a reflection of the BritishArts and Crafts Movement.[5]
From 1931 to 2012Library Quarterlyfeatured 328 printer's marks with an article on the history of each mark.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Roberts, William (1893).Printers' Marks, by.London: George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, & New York.
- ^Nicole Howard (2005),"Printer's Devices",The book: the life story of a technology,Bloomsbury Academic,ISBN9780313330285
- ^University of Barcelona. "Printer's Devices"https://marques.crai.ub.edu/en/printers/devicesArchived2013-09-21 at theWayback Machine
- ^University of Florida, George A. Smathers Librarieshttp://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/device.htm
- ^Karen Nipps, "Printers' Devices as Decorative Elements in Library Architecture."The Library Quarterly83 (July 2013): 271-278.
- ^Kettnich, Karen, et al. “History of the Book, Printers’ Marks, andLibrary Quarterly.”The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy,vol. 85, no. 4, 2015, pp. 345–46.
Publications
[edit]- Havens, E., Tabb, W., & Sheridan Libraries. (2015).Renaissance printers’ devices: essays on the early art of printing & the King Memorial Windows of Johns Hopkins University.Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.
External links
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- Patton, Maggie (11 July 2022)."The Printer's Mark".Openbook(Autumn 2022): 76–77.
- Roberts, W. (1893). Printer's marks: a chapter in the history of typography. London; New York: George Bell & Sons. Project Gutenberg Ebook #25663 Released Jun 1, 2008.
- Printers' marksfrom digitized rare books at theLinda Hall Library
- Base de Typographie de la Renaissance,a database of circa 1100 marks and thousands of other printed ornaments
- Index ofThe Library Quarterlycovers, 1931 to date
- Signa vides. Researching and recording printers‘ devices. Papers presented on 17–18 March 2015 at the CERL Workshop, hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna, ed. by M. Scheibe / A. Wolkenhauer, London 2015 (CERL Studies)[1]
- Typographorum emblemata. The Printer's Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture, ed byAnja Wolkenhauerand Bernhard F. Scholz, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/ NY 2018 (Schriftmedien 4)ISBN978-3-11-043919-9,an international handbook and bibliography.
