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A concise handbook surveying the origin, design, and use of printers’ marks, explaining how these devices evolved from simple trade emblems into ornamental and bibliographical features. The work documents and reproduces many examples, outlines criteria for selection, and treats regional varieties with chapters on England, France, Germany and Switzerland, the Low Countries, Italy, and Spain. It discusses artistic influences, links to book-plates and book illustration, and includes a substantial list of illustrations, notes on modern examples, and a bibliography to guide further study.

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Title: Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography

Author: W. Roberts

Release date: June 1, 2008 [eBook #25663]
Most recently updated: January 3, 2021

Language: English

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PRINTERS’ MARKS.

Printers’ Marks

A Chapter in the History of
Typography by W. Roberts

Editor of “The Bookworm”

London: George Bell & Sons, York Street,
Covent Garden, & New York. Mdcccxciij.

CHISWICK PRESS: C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE.
TO

T. B. BOLITHO, ESQ., M.P.,

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.