Printersí & Publishersí Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640. Illustrated Monographs No. XVI.
Rare and modern books
Mckerrow (Ronald B.)
The Bibliographical Society, 1949.,
Printersí & Publishersí Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640. Illustrated Monographs No. XVI.
Rare and modern books
Mckerrow (Ronald B.)
The Bibliographical Society, 1949.,
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United Kingdom)
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- Author
- Mckerrow (Ronald B.)
- Publishers
- The Bibliographical Society, 1949.
- Keyword
- PRINTING PUBLISHERS EARLY PRINTING INCUNABLES INCUNABULA
Description
First edition, 4to, liv, 216, [2]pp., 428 facsimiles (nearly all full-page), orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. The introduction to this definitive work classifies the devices as: signs indicating where the printer worked, puns upon the ownerís name, monograms, portraits, heraldic devices or emblems. There are lists of devices, notes on their transfer from one printer to another, also indexes of the devices used by booksellers and printers, of mottoes, of initials of artists or engravers, and of devices according to subject.
