. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. or end of them. Butit has always seemed to me that it would be an agreeablevariety of book-collecting to do this, and one which wouldlead the collector along manyby-paths of curious fear of any possible mis-take, I should perhaps empha-sise the point that the collectionmust be one not of printersmarks cut out from books, butof books in which the marksare printed. Even in the case of book-plates, it hasoften been noted how much they gain in interest whenthey are found in situ, though there is always the haunt-ing fear tha
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. or end of them. Butit has always seemed to me that it would be an agreeablevariety of book-collecting to do this, and one which wouldlead the collector along manyby-paths of curious fear of any possible mis-take, I should perhaps empha-sise the point that the collectionmust be one not of printersmarks cut out from books, butof books in which the marksare printed. Even in the case of book-plates, it hasoften been noted how much they gain in interest whenthey are found in situ, though there is always the haunt-ing fear that the conjunction of book and plate may onlybe due to the ingenuity of the vendor. Book-plates, how-ever, have of right a separate existence apart from books,since they are made separately and must await theirowners pleasure before they can be set to their properwork. But the printers device is an integral part of thebook in which it occurs, nor can any limpet torn from its DEVICE OF FUST AND SCHOFFER, 1462 ^ From the Connoisseur, by leave of the DEVICE OF MATTHIAS VAN GOES PRINTERS MARKS 229
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