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A printer's mark, device,
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by early
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s starting in the 15th century. The first printer's mark is found in the 1457 Mainz Psalter by Johann Fust and
Peter Schöffer Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer (c. 1425 – c. 1503) was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and m ...
. One of the most well-known old printer's marks is the dolphin and anchor, first used by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius as his mark in 1502. The database Printers' Devices of the Ancient Book Section of the Library of the
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, was launched in October 1998. The
University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
libraries also provide digital access to printers' devices and include The
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devices that have appeared on the cover of their publication ''
The Library Quarterly ''The Library Quarterly'' is a quarterly double-anonymous peer-reviewed academic journal covering library science, including historical, sociological, statistical, bibliographical, managerial, psychological, and educational aspects of the fiel ...
''. Printers' devices have been incorporated in American library buildings, as a reflection of the British Arts and Crafts Movement.Karen Nipps, "Printers' Devices as Decorative Elements in Library Architecture." ''The Library Quarterly'' 83 (July 2013): 271-278.


See also

* Bookplate * Colophon *
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Merchant's mark A merchant's mark is an emblem or device adopted by a merchant, and placed on goods or products sold by him in order to keep track of them, or as a sign of authentication. It may also be used as a mark of identity in other contexts. History ...
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References


External links

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Roberts, W. (1893). Printer's marks: a chapter in the history of typography. London; New York: George Bell & Sons. Project Gutenberg Ebook #25663 Released Jun 1, 2008.

Printers' marks
from digitized rare books at the
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Base de Typographie de la Renaissance
a database of circa 1100 marks and thousands of other printed ornaments * Signa vides. Researching and recording printers‘ devices. Papers presented on 17-18 March 2015 at the CERL Workshop, hosted by the National Library of Austria, Vienna, ed. by M. Scheibe / A. Wolkenhauer, London 2015 (CERL Studies

* Typographorum emblemata. The Printer’s Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture, ed by :de:Anja Wolkenhauer, Anja Wolkenhauer and Bernhard F. Scholz, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/ NY 2018 (Schriftmedien 4) , an international handbook and bibliography. {{DEFAULTSORT:Printer's Mark Book design
Mark Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * F ...
Trademarks