Marques Typographiques ou Recueil des Monogrammes, Chiffres, Enseignes, Emblèmes, Devises, Rébus et Fleurons des Libraires et Imprimeurs qui on exercé en France, depuis l'introduction de l'Imprimerie en 1470, jusqu'a la fin du seizième siècle..
by SILVESTRE (L.-C.)
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About This Item
Paris: P. Jannet & Renou et Maulde, 1853-1867. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, [4], viii, 384; [4], 385-745, [23]pp., illustrated throughout, cont. morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, slight sign of tape residue to base of spines, but still a very good copy, uncut, t.e.g. A most important reference book picturing, in full size for the most part, and identifying more than 1300 French printers' devices from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Printers, like other manufacturers, put a proprietary mark on their goodsa design cut in wood or metal, printed on the title-page or at the end. It customarily consisted of a pictorial device, sometimes with ornament, sometimes with a motto; an indication of the printer's identity was often includedhis name, initials or a personal sign. Bigmore & Wyman, II, p.356.
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- Forest Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Marques Typographiques ou Recueil des Monogrammes, Chiffres, Enseignes, Emblèmes, Devises, Rébus et Fleurons des Libraires et Imprimeurs qui on exercé en France, depuis l'introduction de l'Imprimerie en 1470, jusqu'a la fin du seizième siècle..
- Author
- SILVESTRE (L.-C.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: P. Jannet & Renou et Maulde, 1853-1867
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Marbled boards
- ...