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#0063
6. Unknown engraver,
Printer's Device ofEloy
Gibier, Orlean, prior
to 1588, woodcut,
Courtesy of the
Librarian, Glasgow
University Library
typographer’s work is expressed as an art which preserves human thought and
carries it into the futurę beyond death. It restores life.
Another aspect of “the black art” appears in an oval woodcut predating
1588 for Eloy Gibier, a typographer working in Orleans (ill. 6). Here a printing
press is depicted operated by a hand reaching out of cloud. The widely-known
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Printer's Device ofEloy
Gibier, Orlean, prior
to 1588, woodcut,
Courtesy of the
Librarian, Glasgow
University Library
typographer’s work is expressed as an art which preserves human thought and
carries it into the futurę beyond death. It restores life.
Another aspect of “the black art” appears in an oval woodcut predating
1588 for Eloy Gibier, a typographer working in Orleans (ill. 6). Here a printing
press is depicted operated by a hand reaching out of cloud. The widely-known
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