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
Stock No:
50794
£30
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