*35 V4-4A A LIST OF THE PRINTERS' MARKS IN THE WINDOW'S OF THE FREDERICK FERRIS THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE r\ A LIST OF THE PRINTERS' MARKS IN THE WINDOWS OF THE FREDERICK FERRIS THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 1917 148063 UNIVERSITY of CALIFORWU hO S ANGELES U IARY /*%, %■■ Y-44 X PRINTERS' MARKS IN THE WINDOWS OF THE THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING (Read from right to left.) 2 END WINDOW— NORTH WING English printers Wynkyn de Worde 1499 (Wynkyn de Worde was Caxton's suc- cessor and adopted his mark with but slight variation) Peter Treveris 1514-1535 French printers 3 Andre Wechel 1535-1573 4 Marx Locquenoulx 1573-1583 5 Leon Cavellat 1578-1593 X M^ END WINDOW— SOUTH WING Alsace-Loraine 1 Martinus Flach 1522 2 John Albertus 1532-1536 3 Theodosius Riheltus 1566-1595 Italy 4 Johann Besicken 1484-1506 5 Caligula de Bacileriis 1503 SIDE WINDOWS (Begin in each wing with the first window at the right and read from right to left) lYd ft 3 2 North Wing 1st window (East side) GERMANY Fust and Schoeffer 1457 (The earliest printer's mark known) Arnold Ther Hoernen 1477 Melchior Lotter 1491-1536 Valentine Schumann 1502-1534 $ 3 2 North Wing 2nd window (East side) Johann Wiessenburger 1503-1513 Erhart Oglin 1505-1516 ENGLAND William Caxton 1489-1491 (The first printer's mark used in England) Richard Pynson 1493-1527 3 2 North Wing 3rd window (East side) Julian Notary 1497 Robert Copland 1515 John Scott 1530 Richard Grafton 1537-1572 North Wing 4th window (opposite 3rd) 1 Hugh Singleton 1548-1582 2 Andrew Hestor 1550 FRANCE 3 Barthold Rembolt 1500 4 De Marnef Brothers 1481-1550 3ftfr W North Wing 5th window (opposite 2nd) Antoine Verard 1485-1530 Simon Vostre 1486-1520 Johan Clein 1478-1519 Thielman Kerver 1497-1522 North Wing 6th window (opposite 1st) 1 Nicole de la Barre 1497-1518 2 Martin Morin 1484-1518 3 Mathieu Vivien 1490 4 Mfchel Vensler 1493 *F* K C* West Wing 1st window (North side) 1 Guillaume Eustace 1493-1525 2 Francois Fradin 1497-1536 3 Alexander Matte 1499-1505 4 Mace Panthoul 1501-1509 West Wing 2nd window (North side) 1 Pierre Jacobi 1503-1521 2 Jannot de Campis 1505-1507 3 Raulin Gaultier 1507-1534 4 Francois Regnault 1512-1551 West Wing 3rd window (North side) 1 Pierre Viart 1513-1525 2 Pierre Gandone 1514-153* 3 Louis Olivelli 1515 4 Jacques Bouchet 1522-1545 West Wing 4th window (opposite 3rd) 1 John Besson 1523 2 Johan Guyart 1528-1539 3 John Baril 1532 4 Nicholas Du Chemin 1541-1576 •S- -West Wing 5th window (opposite 2nd) Jacques Du Puys 1549-1591 Sebastien Nivelle 1549-1583 Pierre Landry 1588-1625 de la Marc 1596 SWITZERLAND West Wing 6th window (opposite 1st) Jacobus de Pfortsheim 1488-1518 John Belot 1495-1535 Jacobus Thanner 1501-1520 Wygand Kohn 1523-1535 \ ft \±S South Wing 1st window (West side) John Crespin 1550-1571 ALSACE-LORRAINE Thomas Anselm 1488-1522 John Gruninger 1488-1529 Renatus Beck 1511-1521 % South Wing 2nd window (West side) Loenardus and Lucas Alantseae 1514- Johannes Priis 1527 ITALY Sixtus Riessinger 1481 Lucantanio Junta 1495-1511 1 3 2 South Wing 3rd window (West side) Aldus Manutius 1494-1515 Hercules Nani 1500 Ottaviano Scotto 1500 Gian Giacomo di Legnano 1503 1 4 3 2 South Wing 4th window (opposite 3rd) 1 Antoine de Baldi 1524-1565 FLANDERS 2 Theodoric Martens 1473 3 Johannes Veldener 1475-1483 4 Gerard Leeu 1477-1492 Al $Tfuj? ^ m KM 4 3 2 1 South Wing 5th window (opposite 2nd) 1 de Liesveldt 1528-1546 2 Albertus Poffray 1530 3 Henry von der Keere 1549-1589 4 Christopher Plantin 1555-1589 I w f % 4 3 2 1 SPAIN South Wing 6th window (opposite 1st) 1 Juan Rosembach 1493 2 Valentin Fernandez 1501 SCOTLAND 3 Walter Chepman 1507 4 Andro Myllar 1507 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY printers; marks Art journal, v. 39, p. 103. Marks and devices of the early prin- ters. Book-buyer, v. 11, p. 9. Printers' trade marks. Home, T. H. Introduction to the study of bibliography. 1814. 2v. (The appendices give many illustrations of devices and brief notices of early printers.) McKerrow, Ronald B. Printers' and publishers' devices in England and Scotland, 1485-1640. 1913. Roberts, W. Printers' marks, a chapter in the history of ty- pography. 1893. "Pleasantly written but containing many errors of fact." Sonnenschein. HISTORY OF PRINTING Blades, W. Life and typography of William Caxton. 1861-63. 2v. Brown, H. R. F. Venetian printing press. 1891. Home, T. H. Introduction to the study of bibliography. 1814. Humphreys, H, N. History of the art of printing from its in- vention to the middle of the 16th century, 1868. Putnam, G. H. Books and their makers during the Middle Ages. 1896-97. 2v. Rawlings, G. B. The story of books. 1901. Smith, A.M. 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