1520:
Jodocus Badius Ascensius | Josse Bade

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Source:

Title: ‘In tertium sententiarum disputationes theologicae denuo recognitae et repurgatae’
Author: John Major
Publisher: -
Printer: apud Josse Bade [et] Jean Petit
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Paris
Year: 1528
Links: [Scan 1], [USTC].

Comments:

Madan (1895), page 227: ‘This date is engraved on Badius’s third press, which is generally similar to No.7, but the waste-sheet and ink-ball on the floor are here wanting, and a brush for cleaning out picks in the type is hung up with other instruments. The title is ‘Prelum | Ascensianū’ (or Ascēsianū), in two lines.’

This is later corrected by giving it a separate numbers 4 and 4*. Nigel Roche gives these woodblocks signum G and G1. [I’m not sure if this difference warrants a separate entry: the woodblocks are the same. Just the type in the head is inserted.] Louis-Catherine Silvestre (1853) Marques typographiques, volume 1, page 257, no 468 [Scan] does not list them as different.

Technique:

Woodcut.

Description in publication

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 226-227. (Illustration #4).

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 Unpublished MA thesis.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