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1545: Josse Lambrecht Click here to enlarge the image. Source:
Title: ‘Corte instruccye, ende onderwijs, hoe een jeghelic mensche met God, ende zynen even naesten, schuldigh es, ende behoord te leven.’ Comments: This illustration appears in books printed by Joos Lambrecht in Gent in 1545, but also in books printed in 1548 by Anthony Scoloker in the United Kingdom (Madan #13), for example in Ordinarye of Christians. [USTC] Technique: Woodcut Publications Carter, Harry (1969, Hyphen press edition 2002) A view of early typography up to about 1600. London: Hyphen press. (Illustration #7). Janet Ing Freeman (1990) ‘Anthony Scoloker, the “Just reckoning” printer, and the earliest Ipswich printing.’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Volume 9(5), page 476-496. Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration by Lambrecht is not mentioned. Madan mentions a 1548 version of Scoloker as number 13). Roche, Nigel (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #J). |
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