Typographorum Emblemata

Joanna A. Tomicka

Fama Typographica. In Search of the Emblem Form of Printer’s Devices. The Iconography and Emblem Form of Printer’s Devices in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poland

The development of emblematic printers’ marks in Poland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with regard to their subject matter and purposes (such as advertising), does not seem different from other countries. Connections with emblems were usually either direct (copies of illustrations used by foreign publishing houses) or could be classified as vague and remote inspirations. A third type encompasses examples demonstrating the individual printer’s approach in search of a form, which would best express – in a modern, fashionable and profound way, i. e., ...