Vulgar words in Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography (Page 1)
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The angels nearly always occur in couples, as in the case of Antoine Vérard, one of 22 the earliest printers to adopt this form; but a few exceptions may be mentioned where only one appears, namely, in the Mark of Estienne Baland, Lyons (1515), in which an angel is represented as confounding BalaamâÂÂs ass; and in that of Vincent Portunaris, of the same place and of about the same time, in which an angel figures holding an open book; in the four employed by G. Silvius, an Antwerp printer (1562), in three of which the figure is also holding a book; in the elaborate Mark of Philip Du Pré, Paris, 1595, and in the exceeding rough Mark of Jannot de Campis, of Lyons, 1505.
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Printersâ Marks: punning devices, 3 , 10 ; mottoes from sacred history, 8 ; printing press, 12 ; mottoes, 13 ; Hebrew and Greek mottoes, 17 ; the Sphere, 17 , 207 ; the Brazen Serpent, 20 ; Balaamâs Ass, 22 ; Christ on the Cross, 22 ; St. Christopher, 22 ; Saints and 260 Priests, 23 ; The Cross, 23-26 ; St. George and the Dragon, 26 ; Time and Peace, 27 ; musical notes, 29 ; rustic subjects, 29 ; the Cornucopia, 30 ; the Unicorn, 32-34 ; the Griffin, 35 ; the Mermaid, 36 ; the Anchor, 37 ; Angels, 37 ; Arion, 37 ; Bellerophon, 37 ; astrological signs, 37 ; Cat, 38 ; Eagle, 38 ; Fortune, 38 , 44 ; Fountain, 38 ; Heart, 38 ; Hercules, 38 ; Lion, 38 ; Magpie, 38 ; Mercury, 38 ; Pelican, 38 ; PhÅnix, 39 ; Salamander, 39 ; Swan, 39 .