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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    66. (8o X 67 mm.) Device of the mark of Richard Bankes, printer and bookseller, 1523-45, supported by two animals, of which one is a unicorn; above, St. John with an agnus dei\ below, a snail. ' 1528 by R. Copland at costs and charges of R. Bankes. The Rutter of the Sea. Bagford Colledtion, Harl. 5919, No. 131, fragment. The rule is unbroken on the right hand side, and there is only one break of any size (3 mm.) on the left_ *n,d. by R. Bankes. A Compendious old Treatise^ showing how that we ought to have the Scripture in English, 67. (88 X 63.5 mm.) St. John the Evangelist, with eagle. Below, the name ' Robert: Wyre.' Plomer, Wyer^ device i. Referring to Wyer's sign of St. John. Wyer spelt his name 'Wyre' in the colophon of St. Bernard's Golden Pistle^ I53i> bi^t not apparently afterwards. (a) With the name, and the eagle. Note: No good copy of the original has been found from which a facsimile could be made, and the present one must not be regarded as accurate in details, *[c. 1531] by R. Wyer, Compost of Ttholomeus (end). (i6) The name, the eagle, and part of the foreground cut away, reducing the size to 75 x 63.5 mm. Mr, Plomer regards this as a separate block (device 3); but after careful comparison with the print in the Compost I can see no evidence that they are from different blocks, and much that they are from the same. As stated, how- ever, the Compost print is in a bad condition, and there may perhaps be a shadow of doubt. The block as altered was perhaps intended to represent St. Bernard writing the Golden Pistle. *i53i by R. 'Wyre,' Bernard, Saint. Here heginneth . . . the Golden Pistle. {y) Cut at top and foot, reducing size to 57 x 62 mm. ^ [before 1537] by R. Wyer. Erasmus (D,). [Paraclesis.'] An exhortation to the . . . study of Scripture (sig. dz verso). ((J) Cut at top, foot, and left hand, reducing size to 52 X45.5 mm. 1550 ' by me Rycharde Wyer,' Coke (J,). The Debate between the Heralds of England and France (end). With rules at top and foot and geometrical ornament to left (as No, 70) making the whole 55 x 58 mm. Probably printed by Robert Wyer, some of whose type and cuts appear in it,