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1587: Jean le Preux I Click here to enlarge the image. Source:
Title: ‘Response aux actes de la conference de Mombelliard.’ Comments: Abraham Horodisch (1974) states: ‘Jean le Preux ... hatte dort eine Druckermarke, die ganz deutlich eine Nachahmung der von uns in Abb. 39 reproduzierten ist (Abb. 47). Verändert sind außer Kleinigkeiten - wie etwa die Lage des Druckballens unter der Presse - die Gesichter des Druckmeisters und des Setzers, und anstelle des prelum Ascensianum lautet die Inschrift prelum typographicum.’ [It looks as if Abraham Horodisch suggests that this mark is based on the 1548 mark of Conrad Badius ‘the junior team’. It is more likely based on the 1555 mark of Conrad Badius: ‘the senior team’.] Nigel Roche (2000, page 45, O2): ‘A copy used by Jean Le Preux I, used in Geneva from 1587 to 1590, with an inscription reading ‘PRELVM | TYPOGRAPHICVM’. The motto ‘Quicquid agas, sapienter agas: respice finem’ runs round three sides of the engraving.’ (= Whatever you do, do it with intelligence and with the end in mind) [taken from Gestae Romanorum.] Technique: Woodcut. Publications Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 223-248. (Illustration 18). Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #O2). Alternative: A better quality image, in which the inscription is ordered differently (1590): Click here to enlarge the image. [Source].
Title: ‘Tractatus pius et moderatus de vera excommunicatione, & christiano Presbyterio, iampridem pacis conciliandae causa, cl. v. Th. Erasti D. Medicicentum manuscriptis thesibus oppositus, & nunc primum, cogente necessitate, editus. Theodoro Beza Vezelio auctore.’ |
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