Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Vol. 12: October, 1911, to April, 1913
Summary. - The devices of the English printers and publishers cannot be treated historically, as they Show no real development. They can, however, be roughly classified, and it will be found that different classes were most in favour at different times. Thus, the majority of early devices, except the very earliest, represent the Sign at which their owner worked; while later the punning device, and still later the emblematic one seem to have been most usual, though at nearly all periods examples of each Class are to be found. Other Classes represent the owner's arms, portrait, mark, or monogram.
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