printers marks – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of printers marks brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
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Printers' marks, the small emblems early publishers placed on title pages and colophons, are a useful window into how Hebrew books were identified once printing reached Europe. Hebrew presses of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in places such as Italy, Constantinople, and the Low Countries, often used devices built from Hebrew letters, lions, and other symbols drawn from Jewish tradition, so a single mark could signal a printer's name, city, and trade. The record for this image does not give its exact origin, but such marks are valued today for what they reveal about the spread of Hebrew publishing and the networks of printers, merchants, and scholars that carried it.
| Original scan | 7,230 × 5,428 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02135u printers marks |
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