1548: Christopher Froschauer

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Source:

Title: ‘Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, landen und voelckeren chronick wirdiger thaaten beschreybung. Hieriñ wirt auch die gelegenheit der gantzen Europe’
Author: Johannes Stumpf
Publisher: -
Printer: bey Christoph Froschauer (I)
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Zürich
Year: 1548
Links: [Scan]. The illustration appears on folio 23 of volume 1. [USTC].

Comments:

Falconer Madan (1895, pag 501) describes: ‘12* 1548. On fol. 23 of vol. i. of Johann Stumpff’s Swiss Chronicle, printed at Zürich, by Christopher Froschover in 1548, there is a cut of a press, which is especially interesting as having formed the model on which was based the 1568 engraving - which has hitherto always been quoted as the first scientific and satisfactory representation of the actual working of the machine.’

Nigel Roche (2000, page 39): ‘A new departure, since for the first time a press is depicted open, rather than closed and run-in. ... and is important for having been copied by Jost Amman.’

Technique:

Woodcut.

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 499-502. (Illustration 12*)

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 Unpublished MA thesis.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