Produced by Louise Hope, Stephen Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber’s Note: This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of the file instead. Where possible, text contained within illustrations of printers’ marks has been transcribed. The text is shown on separate lines, corresponding to the original layout; captions--usually the printer’s name--will appear on the same line as the word “Illustration”. Note that the spelling given in the body text is often different from that of the Mark as pictured. Within illustrations, expanded abbreviations are shown in [brackets]. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. Capitalization of the word “mark” or “Mark” is arbitrary in the original and has not been changed. Misspellings or misprints within Marks are also never changed, but the most obvious errors are noted.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PRINTERS’ MARKS. [Illustration: Cum Priuilegio Venetiis Impressum Anno M D V Petrus Liechtensteyn] Printers’ Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. Roberts Editor of “The Bookworm” [Illustration: GEORGE BELL & SONS] London: George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, & New York. Mdcccxciij. Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham And Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. To T. B. BOLITHO, ESQ., M.P., This Volume Is Respectfully Dedicated. [Decoration] PREFACE.