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Mckerrow (Ronald B.)

Printersí & Publishersí Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640. Illustrated Monographs No. XVI.

The Bibliographical Society, 1949.,

52.50 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, 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.
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