Printer's & publishers' devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640.

  • Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
Date:
1913
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Printer's & publishers' devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    4. (85 X 38.5 mm.) A double cross with a circle within which is a shield charged with a saltier. The arms of the town and abbey of St. Albans (DufF, Provincial Printers^ P- 39)- *[? 1485] Sanftus Albanus. Chronicles of England (end; in red). [i486 at St. Albans]. Berners (Juliana). Book oj Hawking^ etc. (end). 5. (93 X 69.5 mm.) Cut of St. Nicholas restoring to life three children who had been killed and pickled, with the mark and monogram of Nicholas Lecomte and, about the cut. In Domino conjido. M. Nicolas Leconte. For the story see Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art^ ii, 454-5,459. Wace in his St. Nicholas (ed. N. Delius, 1850, 11. 216-29), often cited as an authority for the legend, tells it somewhat differently. *I494 Paris: by W. Hopyl imps. N. Lecomte. Garlandia (J. de). Synonyma (end). 1495 (Feb. 26) Paris: [by W. Hopyl] imps. N. Lecomte. Liber Festivalis (end). j_ 1498 [Paris:] pro N. Lecomte per J. Jehannot. Horae (Sarum) (end). 6. (i 15 X 94 mm.) Framed device of Richard Pynson's monogram surmounted by a helmet. Below, his name. Herbert (p. 242), 6: Hand-listSy Pynson, 2. ■ 1494 by R. Pynson. Boccaccio (G.). Fall of Princes. Before the end of 1496 a crack began to appear in the right-hand top corner of this device, running almost parallel to the side. By the end of 1497 (see below) the piece had split off entirely. The device is not found between 1498 and 1515 (DufF, Early English Printings p. 36, and Printers of West- { minster and London^ p. 62). 1497 R. Pynson iusserat imprimere. Terentius (P.) Afer. Andria (end). The right-hand outer rule gone. 1498 per R. Pynson. Sulpicius (J.). Opus Gr<7ff2ff2a//f^j (end of ' Carmen Sulpitii' appended). , 1515 R. Pynson. Whittington (R.). Editio. DufF, Printers of Westminster and London^ p. 62.