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
primus excogitavit Aldus._” [_missing close quote_]
and with the motto “Vogue la gualee.”
[_illustration text has “guallee”_]
“... eu pour origine l’affiliation à une confrérie religieuse.”
[_error for “eut pour”?_]
The editions of the Printer, “à la licorne,” Deft
[_spelling “Deft” unchanged: may be quoting original_]
in this device we have the sun shining [devise]
“Veritas virescit vulnere.”
[_illustration text has “viressit”_]
“Pour proquer la grand’ miséricorde,
[_text unchanged: illustration has “provocquer”_]
the two first, Jean or Jehan and Galliot, were the most celebrated.
[_final period missing or invisible_]
the motto “ardentes juvo,”
[_illustration text has “audentes”_]
examples of the Strasburg printers
[_here and below, anomalous spelling with one “s” unchanged_]
their very elaborate “Elsässische Büchermarken bis Anfang des
18. Jahrhunderts,”
[_missing period in “18.”, present in earlier citation_]
Berthold Rodt of Hanau, one of Fust’s workmen [Füst’s]
probably that of Wilhelm Moritz Endter’s daughter [thatof]
an enthusiastic bibliopole
[_not an error: bookseller, not bibliophile_]
Johann Feyrabendt
[_spelled -bendt in body text, -bend in figure caption_]
Le Nouueau Testament de nostre Sauflueur Iesu Christ
[_spelling unchanged_]
Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1480-1516, [1480--1516]
the “Britannia” of Camden ... which was likewise employed
[_text unchanged: superfluous “which”_]
the first edition the unabridged “Chronicle of the Cid,”
[_text unchanged: missing “of”?_]
Illustrations of Printers’ Marks:
Non-classical spellings in Greek are not individually noted.
14. Hercules Nani. [_period . after 14. in caption invisible_]
γίνεσθε φρόνιμοι ὥς ὁι ὄφεις, [_breathing mark as shown_]
¶ Melius est nomen bonum q[uam] diuitie mnlte. Prou. xxu.
[_error “mnlte” for “multe” in original_
_text seems to say “xxu” (xxv, 25) but passage is at 22_]
Ερευνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς, οτι ἐμ ἀυταῖς
ζωὴμ ἀιώνιομ ἔχετε.
[_All errors, including the use of mu for nu, are in the original._]
Ἡ ἀγάπη πάντα δέγει.
[_There is no such word as δέγει or σέγει, but the intended form
could not be deduced; it might be a variant of θίγει._]
’ Galle premes tecum mox Leo uictus erit
[_unambiguous apostrophe ’ neither flyspeck nor part of verse_]
καὶ μὴν ἀρθμὸν
[_text unchanged: error for ἀριθμὸν_]
Bibliography:
Elsässische Büchermarken bis Anfang des 18. Jahrhdts.
[_missing period in “18.”, present in first citation_]
l’imprimeur en France au XV siècle.
[_text unchanged: error for “XV^e” (superscript e)?_]
Index:
A few missing commas after initials were silently supplied.
De Vinne, Th., 251. [151]
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