. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. DEVICE OF J. B. SESI^A, FIFTEENTH-SIXTEENTH CENTURY the bend was as much as an. DEVICE USED BY PYNbON IN FROISSARTs CHRONICLES, 1525 {reduced) PRINTERS* MARKS 233 book in which the mark is used, and to make notes of itssubsequent history. Perhaps from the fact that the Anchor and Dolphinwhich Aldus adopted as his device were counterfeited withevil intent, it has sometimes been said that the deviceswere used as trade marks to protect the copyright of thebooks in which they occur. Copyright as such did notexist in the fifteenth and sixt
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. DEVICE OF J. B. SESI^A, FIFTEENTH-SIXTEENTH CENTURY the bend was as much as an. DEVICE USED BY PYNbON IN FROISSARTs CHRONICLES, 1525 {reduced) PRINTERS* MARKS 233 book in which the mark is used, and to make notes of itssubsequent history. Perhaps from the fact that the Anchor and Dolphinwhich Aldus adopted as his device were counterfeited withevil intent, it has sometimes been said that the deviceswere used as trade marks to protect the copyright of thebooks in which they occur. Copyright as such did notexist in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and bookscould only be protected by their printer obtaining a special* privilege either for an individual book or for books of aparticular kind. With this the devices had nothing todo, and although a pleasing design often begat a wholeprogeny of similar ones, this copying, when it was notmerely lazy, was probably complimentary rather thancompetitive. We must take it that the devices were purelyornamental, aiming, no doubt, at the glorification of theprinters who used them, but not possessing any com-mercial significa
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