February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
17h 23m
English
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Paul Hoftijzer
Pallas Nostra Salus. Early Modern Printer’s Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity
In the library of the Koninklijke Vereniging van het Boekenvak [Royal Dutch Association of the Book Trade] in Amsterdam a remarkable manuscript has been preserved. It is a register of the names of the wardens and freemen of the Leiden guild of printers and booksellers, compiled in 1708 by the aged guild servant Sybrant Verruwhert, and continued, presumably by one of his successors, up to the year 1812 when the guild was finally dissolved.462 What makes this manuscript of particular interest with regard to the history of printer’s marks in Leiden is that it has an illustrated title-page, drawn by Frans van Bleyswyck ...