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

  • Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
Date:
1913
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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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    j 1523-4 (Idibus Februarii) in aed. H. Pepwell. Whittington (R.). De OSio Partibus V. Orationis (end). Bibliographica^ i. 184. 53. (119x82 mm.) Compartment with the monogram of Richard Pynson at foot. Copied with alteration of the shield only from that of Johann SchoefFer at Mainz (P. Heitz, Frankfurter und Mainxer Druckerzeichen, No. 4) (Sayle, p. 1729). Several other printers had similar blocks. See, among others, that reproduced in Bibl. Soc. Trans., xi. 204. Cf. also the sides and foot of No. 81. The block in the centre is No. 3. When the compartment is used on a title- page, this is of course absent. f 1522 in aed. Pynsonianis. Galen (C). De motu muscubrum (end). Herbert, p. 271. *I524 in aed. Pynsonianis. Galen (C). De Symptomatum Differentiis (end). ■ 1526 by R. Pynson. The Pilgrimage of PerfeSiion (end). 1526 in aed. Pynsonianis. Henry VIII. Literarum quibus . . . Henricus . . , respondit . . . exemplum (title). Also ? in 1527 (Herbert, p. 279). 54. 22 X 85 mm.) Border-piece (foot) with the initials of John Skot. *I522 by J. Skot. The Mirror of Gold for the Sinful Soul. (31-5^28 mm.) Mark of John Reynes, bookseller, 1523- 1544- Compare No. 61. *I527 by P. Treveris at the expenses of J. Reynes. Higden (R.). Polychronicon. In red on the title-page. 56. (53 X 40 mm.) Device of the initials of Richard Faques on a shield hanging from an arrow and supported by two unicorns. His name in type below. Cf No. 31. *[i52i] Paris: per J. Bignon pro R. Fakes. Horae (Sarum). Bodl., Douce BB. 53.