1514:
Theodoricus de Borne | Dirk van Borne & Wessel Zuseler

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Source:

Title: ‘Carmen bucolicum’.
Author: Baptista Mantuanus
Publisher: -
Printer: Theodoricus I de Borne
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Deventer
Year: 1514
Links: [Scan 1] and [Scan 2], [STCN], [USTC].

Comments:

Hendrik Vervliet (1978, p 136): ‘The illustration here is of a printer’s device (NAT 2), which came from Van Borne and was used by him between 1514 and 1518. This lively drawing shows four people in a printing shop: the compositor, the boy holding the ink-balls, the printer moving the lever and a fourth figure, who is checking a quarto sheet which has just come from the press.’

The woodcut was used in 1518 in Johann Reuchlin’s Sergius vel Capitis caput J. Reuchlin [Scan].

Howard Winger (1983) describes that the same woodcut was used by Wessel Zuseler (or Suzeler) in Deventer (The Netherlands). [Scan]. [USTC].

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

Horodisch, Abraham (1974) ‘Buch und Buchdruckpresse im Druckersignet des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.’ Philobiblon. Jahrgang XVIII, Heft 3, September 1974. (Figure 43).

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration #2**).

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #E).

Hendrik Vervliet (1978) Post-incunabula and their publishers in the low countries. Dordrecht: Springer-Science+Business media.

Howard W. Winger (1983) ‘The Cover Design’, The Library Quarterly 53, no. 2 (April), page 176-177.