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References

Below is an alphabetical list of publications. It’s of course incomplete but it gives some direct links to available scans.

Aliprandi, Giuseppe (1955) ‘Leonardo da Vinci e la stampa’. Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 30, pp 315-20.

Audin, Marius (1928) Histoire de l’imprimerie par l’image. Paris: Henri Jonquières.

Bernard, Auguste (1909) Geofroy Tory. Painter and engraver; first royal printer; reformer of orthography and typography under François I. [Ebook]. [Scan]

Clair, Colin (1969) A chronology of printing. New York: Praeger. [Scan]

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1817) The bibliographical decameron; or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography. London: Shakespear Press. [Scan]

Enschedé, J.W. (1906) ‘Houten handpersen in de zestiende eeuw’ Tijdschrift voor Boek- en Bibliotheekwezen. Jaargang 4, 5, pp 195-215. [Scan]

Enschedé, J.W. (1908) ‘De drukpersafbeeldingen in Ampzing en Scriverius 1628.’ Tijdschrift voor Boek- en Bibliotheekwezen. Jaargang 6, pp 265-268. [Scan]

Fahy, C. (1999) ‘Italian Presses and Printing Techniques in the Hand-Press Period: Some Notes.’ In: The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsop. (pp. 12-27). Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand: Melbourne.

Falkner, Robert. 1902. Description of the antique printing press & other hand appliances; formerly the property of Messrs. Geo. Falkner & Sons of the Deansgate Press Manchester, and presented by them to the Chetham’s Hospital & Library.. Manchester: Chetham’s hospital.

Gaskell, Philip. 1956. ‘The Decline of the Common Press.’ [PhD Thesis]. Cambridge: King’s College.

Gaskell, P. 1970. ‘A Census of Wooden Presses’. Journal of the Printing Historical Society. 6. pp 1 – 32.

Goossens, P. 2017. ‘The long survival of the wooden hand press in Belgium’. Journal of the Printing Historical Society, New Series 25. Winter 2016. pp 51 – 69.

Hamilton, Milton W. 1942. Adam Ramage and His Presses Portland (Maine): The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Harris, Elizabeth. 1972. ‘The American Common press. The restauration of wooden press in the Smithsonian Institution.’ Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 8, pp 42 – 52.

Harris, Elizabeth. 1989. ‘Press Builders in Philadelphia 1776-1850.’ Printing History, Vol. 11 No. 2.

Harris, Elizabeth & Sisson, Clinton, 1987. The common press: Being a record, description & delineation of the early eighteenth-century handpress in the Smithsonian Institution, with a history & documentation of the press. D. R. Godine.

Harris, Elizabeth. 1996. Printing presses in the Graphic Arts Collection. Printing, embossing, stamping and duplicating devices. Washington DC.: The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. [PDF]

Heireman, K. 1973. Dirk Martens 1473 – 1973. Aalst: Catalogus van het Stedelijk Museum-Oud Hospitaal van 1 september - 31 oktober 1973.

Horodisch, Abraham (1974) ‘Buch und Buchdruckpresse im Druckersignet des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.’ Philobiblon. Jahrgang XVIII, Heft 3, September 1974, pp 166-194.

Janssen, Frans A. (1977) Over houten drukpersen. Een studie van het bronnenmateriaal met het oog op de reconstructie van een houten drukpers te Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Gérard Th. van Heusden.

Janssen, F.A. 1980. ‘Inventaire des presses typographiques en bois conservées aux Pays-Bas et en Belgique’. pp 302-316 in: A.R.A. Croiset van Uchelen (ed.) Hellinga Festschrift| Feestbundel| Mélanges. Forty-three studies in Bibliography presented to Prof. Dr. Wytze Hellinga on the occasion of his retirement from the Chair of Neophilology in the University of Amsterdam at the end of the Year 1978. Amsterdam: Nico Israel.

Janssen, F.A. 2004. ‘Reconstructions of the common press: aims and results.’ pp 273 – 285 in: Frans A. Janssen (ed.) 2004. Technique & Design in the history of printing. ’t Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf publishers BV. [Originally published in: Quaerendo, 32 (2002), pp. 175-198.]

Janssen, Frans A. (2004) Technique & Design, ’t Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graaf Publishers.

Madan, Falconer (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’ Bibliographica. Volume 1, pp 223 - 248. [Scan]

Madan, Falconer (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’ Addenda. Bibliographica. Volume 1, pp 499-502. [Scan]

Madan, Falconer (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-press with especial reference to that by Stradanus’ Addenda. Bibliographica. Volume 3, pp 474-475.

Madan, Falconer (1898) ‘Early representations of printing-presses (1499-1600)’. The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. 4 (1896-8), pp 239-240.

Madan, Falconer (1924) ‘Early representations of printing-presses (1499-1600)’. The Bodleian quarterly record. 4 (1923-5), pp 165-7.

May, Alan (2015) ‘Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of a printing press: a reconsideration.’ Journal of the Printing Historical Society, New series, 22. pages 62-80.

McKerrow, Ronald B. (1928) An introduction to bibliography for literary students. London: Oxford University Press. [Scan]

Nash, Ray (1947) Dürer's 1511 Drawing of a Press and Printer. Cambridge: Harvard College Library. (Reviewed by: F.C. Francis (1948). Reviews. The Library, s5-II(4), pages 293-294.)

Presser, Helmut (1955) ‘Unbekannte Abbildungen der Buchdruckpresse.’ Archiv für Druck und Papier, 1, pp 29-33.

Renouard, Philippe (1928) Les marques typographiques parisiennnes des XVe et XVIe siècles. Paris: Champion. [Link]

Renouard, Philippe (1969) Imprimeurs & Libraries Parisiens du XVIe siècle, Tome Deuxième: Baaleu-Banville. Paris: Champion. [Scan]

Reti, Ladislao (1971). ‘Leonardo da Vinci and the Graphic Arts: The Early Invention of Relief-Etching.’, The Burlington Magazine. 113, no 817 (April 1971), pp 188-195. [Figure 23]

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

Roth-Scholtz, Friedrich (1730) Thesaurus symbolorum ac emblematum: i.e. insignia bibliopolarum et typographorum ab inculabulis typographiae ad nostra usque tempora. Norimbergae: Haeredes Ioh. Dan. Tauberi. [Scan]

Silvestre (1867) Marques typographiques - Volume 1. Paris: Renou et Maulde [Scan]

Silvestre (1867) Marques typographiques - Volume 2. Paris: Renou et Maulde [Scan]

Tomicka, Joanna A. (1998) ‘The Black Art - Typography and its Allegories in Emblems during the 16th - 18th Centuries.’ Bulletin du Musée national de Varsovie. 39 (1-4), pp 50-70. [Scan]

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

Leon Voet (1955), ‘Ray Nash: Dürer's 1511 drawing of a press and printer.’ (Review). De Gulden Passer, jaargang 33, p 134.

Weghe, Frank van de, Beeck, Bart op de (1993) Drukkersmerken uit de 15de en de 16de eeuw binnen de grenzen van het huidige België / Marques typographiques employées au XVe et XVIe siècles dans les limites géographiques de la Belgique actuelle. Brill | Hes & De Graaf.

Wolkenhauer, Anja and Scholz, Bernhard, F. (2018) Typographorum Emblemata: The Printer's Mark in the Context of Early Modern Culture. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

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