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
Bellaert’s name does not appear in it, but his Mark at the end
permits of an easy identification, it being the same as that which
appears in his Dutch edition of “Glanvilla de Proprietatibus Rerum,”
1485: the arms above the Griffin are those of the city of Haarlem. One
of the most famous printing localities of the Low Countries was Leyden
(Lugdunum Batavorum), where the art was practised so early as 1483,
Heynricus Henrici, 1483-4, being one of the earliest, his Mark carrying
two shields, one of which bears the cross keys of Leyden. The Pelican is
an exceedingly rare element in Dutch and Flemish Printers’ Marks, one of
the very few exceptions being that of J. Destresius, Ypres, 1553, the
motto on the border reading “Sine sanguinis effusione non fit remissio.”
[Illustration: GODEFROY BACK.]
[Illustration: A. CÆSARIS.]
[Illustration: MICHAEL HILLENIUS.
TEMPVS.]
[Illustration: J. BELLAERT.]
[Illustration: H. HENRICI.
hollan leiden]
It will be convenient to group together in this place a few of the more
representative examples of the Marks of the Dutch and Flemish printers
of the sixteenth century. Of Thomas Van der Noot, who was printing at
Brussels from about 1508 to 1517, there is very little of general
interest to state, but his large Mark is well worthy of a place here.
Picturesque in another way also is the Mark of J. Grapheus, Antwerp,
1520-61; the example we give is a distinct improvement on a very roughly
drawn Mark which this printer sometimes used, which is identical in
every respect to this, except that it has no borders. It is one of the
few purely pictorial, as distinct from armorial, Marks which we find
used at Antwerp in the earlier half of the sixteenth century. One of
this printer’s most notable publications is “Le Nouueau Testament de
nostre Sauflueur Iesu Christ trãslate selon le vray text en franchois,”
1532, a duodecimo of xviii and 354 folios, a rare impression of Le Fèvre
d’Etaples’ Testament as it had been issued by L’Empereur, in 1530, who
had obtained the licence of the Emperor and the Inquisition for this
impression. Henri Van den Keere, a book-seller and printer of Ghent,
1549-58, had four Marks, all of which resemble more or less closely the
rather striking and certainly distinct example here given. Of the Bruges
printers of the sixteenth century, Huber or Hubert Goltz, 1563-79, is
perhaps the most eminent, not so much on account of the typographical
phase of his career, as because of his works as an author and artist.
The “Fasti Magistratum et Triumphorum Romanorum,” is one of his books
best known to scholars, whilst to students of numismatics his work on
the medals from the time of Julius Cæsar to that of the Emperor
Ferdinand, in Latin, of which a very rare French edition appeared at
Antwerp in 1561, is well known, and the original edition of his works in
this respect is still highly esteemed, although, as Brunet points out,
Goltz has suffered a good deal in reputation since Eckel has
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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