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1520:
Jodocus Badius Ascensius | Josse Bade

1519 Ascensius

Click here to enlarge the image. [Source]

Source:

Title: ‘Epistolae’
Author: Guillaume Budé
Publisher: -
Printer: in officina Josse Bade
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Paris
Year: 1520
Links: [USTC].

Comments:

Falconer Madan (1895), page 227: ‘This date is engraved on Badius’s third press, which is generally similar to No.7, but the waste-sheet and ink-ball on the floor are here wanting, and a brush for cleaning out picks in the type is hung up with other instruments. The title is ‘Prelum | Ascensianū’ (or Ascēsianū), in two lines.’

This is later corrected by giving it a separate number 4*. Nigel Roche gives these woodblocks signum G1 (without the n in Ascesianum) and G for the woodcut with the n in Ascensianum.

A recut version appears on page 119 in Thomas Frognall Dibdin Bibliographical decameron (1817). [Scan]

Technique:

Woodcut.

Description in publications:

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration #4*).

Philippe Renouard (1928) Les marques typographiques parisiennnes des XVe et XVIe siècles. Paris: Champion. figure 23. [Scan]

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #G1).

Louis-Catherine Silvestre (1853) Marques typographiques, volume 1', page 257, no 468. [Scan].

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