. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. fthe happiest pas-sages in the Boo/: Hunter dealswith the trade emblems of the old printers. Thesubject on which it merely touches has beentreated at length in such works as Silvestie sJfarijucsTi/pofjra/)hifjues(2voh. Paris, 18G7); Koth-Scholtzs Thesaurus Sijnibolontni ac Emblemutum,id kl est, Insiifnia Bibliopoloruni et Tijpofjraphorum; Norimberga-, ); Herjeaus Karhj PrintersMarks ( Loml. 1S(J()). It is enough here to mentionthe Ijoldlv drawn three-mast ship of Mathis van derGoes, Antwerit (1472-94); the windmill of Andrew
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. fthe happiest pas-sages in the Boo/: Hunter dealswith the trade emblems of the old printers. Thesubject on which it merely touches has beentreated at length in such works as Silvestie sJfarijucsTi/pofjra/)hifjues(2voh. Paris, 18G7); Koth-Scholtzs Thesaurus Sijnibolontni ac Emblemutum,id kl est, Insiifnia Bibliopoloruni et Tijpofjraphorum; Norimberga-, ); Herjeaus Karhj PrintersMarks ( Loml. 1S(J()). It is enough here to mentionthe Ijoldlv drawn three-mast ship of Mathis van derGoes, Antwerit (1472-94); the windmill of AndrewMyller, Edinburgh (1508, ike); the curious wildmen and fruit laden tree of Thonicos Davidson,Edinburgh (;tl); the olive-tree of the Stephenses ;and the sphere of the Elzevirs. In many instancesthere is a punning allusion to the printersname : Froschover has his frogs (Frosch in Ger-man), and Le Chandelier his seven-branched can-dlestick : Nicholcos Eve gives us a picture ofthe presentation of the forbiilden fruit. Others ^i^::^:^:<^^.<^:^i^. Imprint of Caxtoii. make use of the amis of the cities in whichthev worked. Leeu shows the castle of Antwerp,li. Hall thehalf-eagle andkey on a shieldof lion ram-pant of Heitlel-berg and theshield diaperedof Ascensius(1462-153-2) ha>bequeathed tti fiosterity theivelyand accu-rate represen-tation, tlown toevery nail andscrew, of thepress in whichthe great worksof the Kithcenturv were printeil, with the brawny pressman pulling his device with the inscription Prcl^i Aseesiamlwas adoptedbv Bade,Paris (), who adiledhis initials atthe foot; byI)e Gourmoiit(1507-15) : (150187) : and in ;imodilied loriiibv l)e Marncl(1567 ) and DcKoigny (1565).The anchorand dolphin ofthe Aldi wasemployed byTurrisan, DcChenney, I]rillard, lom be , a>in the last in-stance, withthe dividedAldus. Decoration of the Book.—Leaving out of view thepictorial illustrati
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