1550: Conrad Badius

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Source:

Title: ‘Epistola del Vergerio, nella quale sono descritte molte cose della cità, et della Chiesa di Geneva’.
Author: Pietro Paolo Vergerio
Publisher: -
Printer: [Jean Crespin: Conrad Badius]
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Genève
Year: 1550
Links: [Scan], [USTC].

Comments:

Nigel Roche (2000, page 41) describes illustration M: ‘An oval within a rectangular frame shows a laterally-reversed image based on K. [= Badius 1548.] The motto around the oval reads ‘In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo’.’ (= ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’, Genesis 3:19.).

Louis-Catherine Silvestre (1853) does not mention this mark.

Technique:

Woodcut.

Publications

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 223-248. (Illustration 14).

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 Unpublished MA thesis.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