DOI article:
Tomicka, Joanna A.: The Black Art: Typography and its allegories in emblems during the 16th-18th centuries
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18947#0059
2. Unknown engraver,
Prinłer's Device
oflosse Bade,
Paris, prior to 1535,
woodcut,
Muzeum Narodowe,
Warsaw
Badius Ascenius (1462-1535), was a printer, publisher and engraver, born in
Asch near Brussels and based in Paris from 1499. These are the earliest plates
of a fully devełoped form and at the same time the oldest representations of
the typographical atelier.
Ibid., p. 43; cf. H. W Davies, Devices ofthe Early Printers 1457-1560, London 1935, p. 247.
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Prinłer's Device
oflosse Bade,
Paris, prior to 1535,
woodcut,
Muzeum Narodowe,
Warsaw
Badius Ascenius (1462-1535), was a printer, publisher and engraver, born in
Asch near Brussels and based in Paris from 1499. These are the earliest plates
of a fully devełoped form and at the same time the oldest representations of
the typographical atelier.
Ibid., p. 43; cf. H. W Davies, Devices ofthe Early Printers 1457-1560, London 1935, p. 247.
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