Typographorum Emblemata

Judit Vizkelety-Ecsedy

Mottos in Printers’ Devices – Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage

In the following I will be dealing with the group of printers’ and publishers’ devices in Hungary which contain a motto, thus making their message more individual. As there is a complete survey at our disposal of devices used in Hungary in the more than 300 years between 1488 and 1800,875 we know that their number is rather restricted, which means that their usage was not general at all. The lack of devices can be explained probably by the relatively small number of printers (who were mostly publishers at the same time) but it may also be due to the circumstance that there was regularly one printer working in a town, and there was no need to use identifying ...