Marques typographiques; ou, Recueil des monogrammes, chiffres, enseignes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont exercé en France, depuis l'introduction de l'imprimerie, en 1470, jusqu'à la fin du seizième siècle, à ces marques sont jointes celles des libraries et imprimeurs qui pendant la même période ont publié, hors de France, des livres en langue française.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silvestre, L.-C. (Louis-Catherine), 1792-1867.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Printers' marks, French.

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : P. Jannet, successeur de L. C. Silvestre, 1853 :. Impr. Renou et Maulde, 1867.

Notes:

On cover: Paris, A. Labitte, 1868.

Paged continuously.

1,310 devices, with names of owners and dates of period when used.

Issued in 9 parts, 1853-65, anonymously, Silvestre's name appearing only on special t.-p. of each volume and on covers. The work was interrupted by his death in 1867 and the proposed descriptive, comparative and biographical indexes were never published; a short alphabetical index (21 p.) was hoever issued by the publishers as "livraison X" of the work.

OCLC:

40855502