Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of TypographyRoberts, W. (William)
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Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography
Roberts, W. (William)
Printers' marks
“A Dyalogue Defensyue for Women,” 1542, but as to nearly sixty others of
his works no date is attached, he may have commenced earlier than the
first date and continued after the second. The marks of Wyer consisted
of two or three representations of St. John the Divine writing, attended
by an eagle holding the inkhorn; he is seated on a rock in the middle of
the sea intended to represent the Isle of Patmos. Laurens, or Lawrence,
Andrewe, by Ames stated to be a native of Calais, printed a few books
during the third decade of the sixteenth century, and resided near the
eastern end of Fleet Street at the sign of the Golden Cross. His Mark
consisted of a shield which is contained within a very rudely cut
parallelogram; the escutcheon is supported by a wreath beneath an
ornamental arch, and between two curved pillars designed in the early
Italian style, with a background formed of coarse horizontal lines.
Three of his books are in the British Museum. The Museum possesses only
one book with the imprint of Andrew Hester, who was a bookseller of the
“White Horse,” St. Paul’s Church Yard, and this is an edition of
Coverdale’s Bible, “newly oversene and correcte,” which appears to have
been printed for him by Froschover, of Zurich, 1550. Among English Marks
of the period, Hester’s possesses the merit of being original.
[Illustration: ROBERT COPLAND.
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Robert Coplande.]
[Illustration: ROBERT WYER.
ROBERT WYER]
[Illustration: ANDREW HESTER.
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[Illustration: THOMAS BERTHELET.
LVCRECIA ROMANA
THOMAS BERTHELETVS]
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