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Title: ‘Epistolae’ 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 Unpublished MA thesis.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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