1589: Gilles Rooman

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Source:

Title: ‘Veelderhande liedekens, ghemaect uut den Ouden ende Nieuwen Testamente.’
Author: -
Publisher: -
Printer: Gillis Rooman
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Haarlem
Year: 1589
Links: [Scan 1] 1589. [Scan 2] 1589. [Scan 3] 1593. [USTC].

Comments:

Both Nigel Roche (2000) and Abraham Horodisch (1974) incorrectly describe and show the printer’s mark of Adriaen Rooman, the son of Gilles Rooman.

Falconer Madan (page 502, 23*) describes the correct mark, but initially dates it 1538. This is corrected to 1593 on page 240, but the mark was already used in 1589. Madan provides 2 references:
- Bibliotheca Belgica, 1st Series (1880-90), vol. 12, H. 145, and
- Marques typographiques (1894) vol. 1, Haarlem, Rooman, No. 2.
[Note: Louis-Catherine Silvestre (1867) does not mention the marks of Gilles nor Adriaen Rooman.]

This woodcut was also used by Adriaen Rooman, for example in 1629. [Scan]

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 23*).

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #T). [Note: this is not the printer's mark of Gilles Rooman.]