Typographorum Emblemata

Bernhard F. Scholz

The Truth of Printer’s Marks: Andrea Alciato on “Aldo’s Anchor”, “Froben’s Dove” and “Calvo’s Elephant”. A Closer Look at Alciato’s Concept of the Printer’s Mark

It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub-Librarian appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatever, sacred or profane. Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely ...