Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Julian Notary (1455 - 1523) spent the early part of his career in a partnership with Jean Barbier and a printer whose initials are alleged to stand for J. Huvin. Together they established their first firm in London, where they published Questiones Alberti de modis significandi and Horae ad usum Sarum. In 1498, Notary and Barbier moved to a printing house in Westminster, and shortly after, Barbier returned to France. Between 1499 and 1500, Notary published several small works, both sacred and literary, before he transferred his practice back to London; these include Quattor Sermones, Liber Festivalis, and Chaucer's Love and Complaintes between Mars and Venus. Upon his return to London, Notary printed multiple editions of The Chronicles of England and The Golden Legend. Notably, many of the illustrations and engravings he used can be traced to the shops of Wynkyn de Worde and William Caxton. Notary worked in close proximity to de Worde for the remainder of his career. The printer's mark of Julian Notary underwent several stages of evolution before it became the monogram displayed in the Vassar Library. Throughout these transitions, however, the mark maintained a basic format, consisting of an orb-and-cross, which originated in Italy, surmounted by a four-mark. Interestingly, Notary's device was the only one in England to use a four-mark symbol during the 15th century. Earlier versions included the monograms of his partners, Barbier and Huvin. After Barbier's departure from their firm, Notary reconfigured the device and incorporated it into his independent publications; accordingly, the mark in the Vassar Library bears only the initials I.N. for his Latinized name, "Iulianus Notarius." Subsequent variations included Notary's full name within the orb, as well as slight rearrangements of the upper crossbars of the four-mark.