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PRINTER'S DEVICE
GYMNICUS FAMILY
(Printers, of Cologne)
Fine woodcut device, showing a monstrous horse with fish's tail,
carrying a pillar on which stands a crane with a snake in its beak, all encircled by the motto 'Discite Iustitiam Moniti' ('Be warned, learn justice', Vergil Aeneid 6:620), in the upper corners are two unicorns, in the lower are female figures, one with a cross, the other with a flaming heart, merchant's mark without initials, 3½ x 3½ (8.9cm x 8.7cm), no date, c.
Item Date: 1580
£40
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Background
Paul Heitz, 'Die Kölner Buchermarken', no. 115.
tiny defect in bottom blank margin
Stock No. 50793
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