Typographorum Emblemata : : The Printer’s Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture /

Typographorum Emblemata : : The Printer’s Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture / / ed. by Bernhard F. Scholz, Anja Wolkenhauer.

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This collection of specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the Early Modern printer's mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. This collection of 17 specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bernhard, Tübingen,
Bässler, Andreas,
Hayaert, Valérie,
Houwen, Luuk,
Hufnagel, Silvia,
Jakimyszyn-Gadocha, Anna,
Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Justyna,
Lundblad, Kristina,
Meeus, Hubert,
Peil, Dietmar,
Scholz, Bernhard F.,
Simon, Melinda,
Staikos, Konstantinos Sp.,
Tomicka, Joanna A.,
Vizkelety-Ecsedy, Judit,
Wolkenhauer, Anja,
HerausgeberIn:
Scholz, Bernhard F.,
Wolkenhauer, Anja,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Saur, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Schriftmedien – Kommunikations- und buchwissenschaftliche Perspektiven , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 429 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part A: Beginnings and Provenances
  • Sisters, or Mother and Daughter? The Relationship between Printer’s Marks and Emblems during the First Hundred Years
  • Ekphrasis and Printer’s Signets
  • Beastly Devices: Early Printer’s Marks and Their Medieval Origins
  • From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printer’s Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600
  • Part B: Regions & Places
  • Heraldic and Symbolic Printer’s Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)
  • Jewish Printers’ Marks from Poland (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
  • 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
  • Pallas Nostra Salus. Early Modern Printer’s Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity
  • Early Modern Munich Printer’s Marks (and Related Issues)
  • The Printer’s Mark in Early Modern Sweden
  • Iceland’s Lack of Printer’s Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century
  • Part C: Concepts, Historical and Systematic
  • 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
  • The Legal Significance and Humanist Ethos of Printers’ Insignia
  • The Transition of the Printer’s Device from a Sign of Identification to a Symbol of Aspirations and Beliefs
  • Mottos in Printers’ Devices – Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage
  • European Printers’ and Publishers’ Marks in the Eighteenth Century. The Three C’s: Conformity, Continuity and Change
  • In Place of an Afterword: Notes on Ordering the Corpus of the Early Modern Printer’s Mark
  • Part D: Research Bibliography and Index
  • Research Bibliography: The Early Modern Printer’s Mark in Its Cultural Contexts
  • Contributors
  • Index

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