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. tiny defect in bottom blank margin

Paul Heitz, 'Die Kölner Buchermarken', no. 115.

Item Date:  1580

Stock No:  50793      £40

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