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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    60. {i ly.^ X S;^ mm.) Device of a shield bearing the initials P. T., suspended from a tree and supported by a man and woman covered with long hair and bearing bows and arrows. Below is the name ' Petrus Treveris ' on a scroll. The man and woman are woodwoses, or woodhouses, semi-human creatures believed to inhabit the woods, and refer to Treveris' sign the ' Wodows.' They are not uncommon as heraldic supporters, and are to be found in the device of Philippe Pigouchet, printer at Paris, 1486-1512 (Silvestre, 71), and in those of Walter Chepman, Thomas Davidson, and others; see Nos. 29, 65. *I525 (March 6) Southwark: by P. Treveris. Braunschweig (H.). The noble experience of the vertuous Handy Work of Surgery (end). 1529 (March 17) Southwark: by P. Treveris. The Great Herbal (end). 61. (211 [or, with crown, 239] x 157 mm.) Framed cut of St. George and the Dragon. Above, the arms of Henry VIII, a portrait of the King, and the arms of London. In the upper corners of the frame, the mark of John Reynes, as No. 55. The cut refers to the sign of St. George, at which Reynes traded. *I527 by P. Treveris, at the expenses of J. Reynes. Higden (R.). Po/ychronicon (end). The cut of St. George is repeated on the title-page, but without the upper part of the block. 62. (198 X 142 mm.) Architedtural compartment with W. R., the initials of William Rastell, printer, 1530-4. The shields at the top appear to have been always blank, f *^53^ apud W, Rastell. Registrum omnium Brevium. \ 1533 by W. Rastell. Fabyan's Chronicle. Perhaps passed to Thomas Gibson in 1534-5. 1539 in aed. T. Gibson. The Great Herbal. Herbert, p. 490. Passed to Henry Smith, perhaps by way of John Reynes. 1542 by J. Reynes. Chaucer (G.). Works. 1546 excud. H. Smith. Intrationum liber. It still has W. R. on the pillars.