Printers' marks--Europe

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Albertus Pafraet (c.14-- – c. 155-) was born in Deventer to Richard Pafraet, one of the first printers in the city. By 1511 he took over his father's press and continued to work on similar types of commissions, mainly religious texts and

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Aldus Manutius (c.1449 – 1515) was born in Bassiano, Italy around 1449 and studied the classics in Rome and Ferrara. He took a special interest in the ancient Greek scholarship of Guarino da Verona. In 1482, through his relationship with

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. Originally from Milan, Alexandre Aliate (c.14-- – c. 1505) began working as a printer in Paris in approximately 1497, where he is first documented working at the Sign of St. Barbara. In 1499, he printed his first known work, Carmina, sive

Main (Thompson) Library location: End window -- North wing. André Wechel (c.15-- – 1581) assumed responsibility of the printing press of his father, Chrétien Wechel, after his death in 1554. Wechel primarily printed the works classical and contemporary authors; among his most notable titles are La

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. Very little is known about the life and career of Andrew Hester (c.15 -- – c. 1556). He worked as a bookseller and printer at St. Paul's Churchyard in London, and his practice was most likely located at the Sign of the White Horse. In

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Third window. Antonio Blado (1490 – 1567) was born in Asola, Italy in 1490 established his printing press in Rome and soon after began to publish a series of excerpts from a 12th century collection of narratives entitled Mirabilia Urbis Romae. Blado

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. The earliest records concerning Arnold Therhoernen (c. 14-- – c. 1484) document him as a cleric of the Diocese of Utrecht who matriculated at the University of Cologne in 1468. He began to work at the press of Ulrich Zell, and the first

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Berthold Rembolt (c.14-- – 1518), originally from Ehenheim in Alsace, moved to Paris in 1494, where he established his printing firm in partnership with Ulrich Gering at the Sign of the Golden Sun. By the time Gering left the firm in 1509

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- End window. The earliest available records concerning Caligula de Bazaleriis (c.14-- – c. 15--) locate him in Bologna in 1490. There he may have begun to work with printer and relative, Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, who published books dated as early as

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Christopher Plantin (c.1520 – 1589) was born circa 1520 in the region of Touraine, France where he was raised in the home of a clergyman and received a classical education. He was apprenticed to bookbinder Robert Macé and later began to

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Sixth window. Brothers Geoffroy, Jean, and Enguilbert de Marnef printed collaboratively and shared a printing press in Paris at the Sign of the Pelican, founded by Geoffroy, from which they issued their first publication Les sept degres de l'echelle in

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Fifth window. Ercole Nani (c.14-- – c. 15--) was a printer and typesetter in Bologna, where his documented practice began in 1483 with the collaborative publication of Robertus Valturius' Opera dell'arte militare. By 1492, Nani established himself

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Second window. Erhart Oeglin (c.1470 – c.1521) was born in Reutlingen around 1470, and by 1490, he was in Basel, where he studied printing under Johann Otmar. In 1505, Oeglin moved to Augsburg and began printing with Jörg Nadler; it was not until 1518

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Based on the information compiled from the colophons of his publications, it is evident that François Fradin (c.14-- – c. 15--) was originally from Poitiers. His career began circa 1493 in Lyon, where he worked with printer Jean Pivard

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Fifth window. François Regnault of Caen (c.14-- – c. 1540/1), occasionally referred to as Renaldus, first appeared in Paris in 1475. While on of the first books attributed to Regnault is Sermones by Jacobus de Voragine in 1500, this is contested by the

Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- First window. Johann Fust (c.1400 – 1466) was a wealthy financier who, in 1450, began to lend Johannes Gutenberg large sums of money to support his ambitions of printing with movable type. In 1455, around the time when Gutenberg was publishing his 42

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Third window. Gerard Leeu (c.1445/50 – 1492) was born in Gouda and operated two small printing presses there until 1484, when he relocated his practice to Antwerp. Documents indicate that he was a master printer at the prominent Guild of St. Luke in

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Sixth window. The name and mark of Gian Giacomo de Legnano (c.14-- – c. 15--) first appear in Milan circa 1480. De Legnano shared a printing press with his brothers at the Sign of the Angel and printed books regularly in both Milan and Pavia until 1533

Main (Thompson) Library location: South wing -- Second window. Hendrik van den Keere (c.15-- – 1580) was born in Ghent at the beginning of the sixteenth century and succeeded the printing press of Jan Cauweel in 1556. Before becoming a printer, however, van den Keere was a professor of French, as

Main (Thompson) Library location: Class of '51 Reading Room. Few records exist to document the early life of Hugh Singleton (c. 15-- – 1593). It is known, however, that he spent the majority of his life in London, with the exception of periods abroad in Germany. Before becoming a printer, Singleton