. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. begins withthat used by Caxton for the first time as late in his careeras 1487. Out of respect for his master, Wynkyn deWorde adopted the essential parts of this, the and the interlacement between them in all hisfifteen different devices, thus conferring on them a ratherpainful monotony. English printers, indeed, seem tohave set little store on originality in these matters, theearliest device of Pynson being adapted from that of LeTalleur, of Rouen, that of Richard Faques from Thiel-mann Kervers, the wild men of Peter
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. begins withthat used by Caxton for the first time as late in his careeras 1487. Out of respect for his master, Wynkyn deWorde adopted the essential parts of this, the and the interlacement between them in all hisfifteen different devices, thus conferring on them a ratherpainful monotony. English printers, indeed, seem tohave set little store on originality in these matters, theearliest device of Pynson being adapted from that of LeTalleur, of Rouen, that of Richard Faques from Thiel-mann Kervers, the wild men of Peter Treveris fromthose of Pigouchet, and John Byddells unprepossessingfigure of Virtue from that used by Jacques Sacon, ofLyons. Nevertheless, English devices at once interestingand original are not lacking. That used by Pynson at PRINTERS MARKS 239 the end of Lord Berners translation of Froissart (seepage 232) is one of the largest and not the least fine ofarmorial marks, the interlaced triangles of WilliamFaques make a singularly neat device, and John Days. DEVICE OF JOHN WIGHT picture of two men gazing on a skeleton, with the motto, Etsi mors indies accelerat vivet tamen post funera virtus,has its own merits. England also contributes two ofthe very small number of portrait marks, a large oneof Day and a smaller one (here reproduced) of JohnWight,^ a bookseller of St. Pauls Churchyard, whopublished a few books between 1551 and 1589. It seemedpermissible to come down as late as this in the case of our Our illustration shows the cut in an interesting state, when the original I. ofthe first initial had been altered to an R. to suit Johns descendant change is one of a kind with which collectoif§ of book-plates are familiar, 240 OLD PICTURE BOOKS own country, but to speak of the French and Germandevices of the middle of the sixteenth century would openup too large a field. All that has been attempted hereis to give a few characteristic examples of comparativelyearly date,
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