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Printers and Their Marks

Aldus Pius Manutius, 1450 -1515

• Other names: Aldus Pius Manuzio, Aldo Pio Manuzio Bassanias (of Bassanio) later became Aldo Pio Manuzio Romanus
• Working period: Venice: 1494 - 1515
• Date of device: 1502
• Note: The UCLA University Research Library's Reference Department and Special Collections have extensive research collections on Aldus Pius Manutius.

Thomas Anshelm of Baden - Baden, ? - 1524

• Working period: Strasbourg, 1488; Pforzheim, 1500 - 1511; Tubingen, 1511 - 1516; Haguena, 1516 - 1522
• Date of device: 1518

Conrad Baumgarten

• Other names: Baumgarthen, Bomgarthen
• Working period: Danzig, 1499; Olomouc, 1500 - 1502; Breslau, 1503 - 1506; Frankfurt, 1506 -1509; Leipzig, 1514
• Date of device: approximately 1505

William Caxton [of County Kent], c. 1422 - 1491

• Working period: Cologne, 1471-1472; Bruges, 1474 - 1476; Westminster, 1477 - 1491
• Date of device: 1487
• Note: Caxton was England's first printer

Walter Chepman, c. 1473 - 1538

• Working period: Edinburgh, 1507
• Date of device: 1508

Simon de Colines, ? - 1546

• Other names: Colinaeus of Brittany, Symon Colinet
• Working period: Paris, 1520 - 1546
• Date of device: 1521

Jacques Colomies

• Working period: Toulouse, 1525 - 1550
• Date of device: 1534

Jean Du Pre

• Other names: Johannes de Prato, Jehan Du Pre
• Working period: Salins, 1484-1485; Lyons, 1486/87 - 1495?(1498?); Narbonne, 1491; Uzes, 1493; Avignon, 1497; Montpellier, 1501 (succeeded by heirs)
• Date of device: 1492

William Faques, ? - c. 1508

• Other names: Fawkes, Fakes, Faukes
• Working period: London, c. 1499 - 1508
• Date of device: 1504
• Note: Faques was the first Printer to the King of England

Andreas Fritag de Argentina (Strasburg)

• Working period: Gaieta, 1487; Rome, 1492 - 1496
• Date of device: 1493

Johann Froben of Hammelburg, 1460 - 1527

• Other names: Jean, Joannes Frobenius, Joannis Frobenii
• Working period: Basle, 1491 -1527
• Date of device: 1517

Johann Fust, ? - c.1508 and Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim, 1425* - 1503

• *date is approximate
• Working period: Mainz, 1457 - 1466
• Date of device: 1457, August 14
• Note: This device was the earliest known printer's mark and the earliest to contain the typographers name, place and the date of printing.

Lucantonio Guinta, 1450 - 1519

• Other names: Junta or Zunto of Florence
• Working period: Venice, 1482-1536 (succeeded by heirs)
• Date of device: 1497

Louis Guerbin

• Other names: Loys Cruse, Louis Garbin
• Working period: Geneva, 1497-1509
• Date of device: unknown

Zacharis Kallierges

• Other name: Kalliergos
• Working period: Crete, 1517
• Date of device: unknown

Melchoir Lotter, ? - 1542

• Working period: Leipzig, 1491-1536
• Date of device: unknown

Colard Mansions, ? - 1484

• Working period: Bruges, 1474-1484
• Date of device: unknown

Ercole Nani

• Other name: Hercules Nani
• Working period: Bologna, 1423-1494; Rome: 1509

Sebastien Nivelle

• Working period: Paris, 1549-1584
• Date of device: unknown

Julian Notary, 1498 - 1520

• Other name: Juliyan Notary
• Working period: London, 1498-1499
• Date of device: 1507

Ehard Oglin

• Working period: Hugsburg, 1505-1516
• Date of device: unknown

Richardus Paffraet

• Other names: Ryker Paffraet, Poffray, Paffroed de Colonia
• Working period: Denventer, 1476 - 1511
• Date of device: 1488

Jean I Petit

• Other names: Paryus, Pusillus
• Working period: Paris, 1495-1530
• Date of device: 1511
• Note: Also carried on by son Jean II Petit, working period: 1525-1543

Philippe Pigouchet

• Working period: Paris, 1483 - 1515
• Date of device: c.1491-1510 (several versions; first completed device undated)

Dominicus Rocociola

• Other name: Domincus Ragazulus
• Working period: Modena, 1481 - 1509
• Date of device: 1500

Johann Rosenbach

• Other names: Joan, Juan Rosembach, of Heidelburg
• Working period: Barcelona, 1492 -1498, 1507 -1530?; Valencia, 1492; Tarragona, 1498 - 1500; Perpignan, 1500 - 1503; Monserrat, 1518 - 1524
• Date of device: 1500

Laurentius de Rubeis de Valenza

• Other names: Lorenzo di Rossi
• Working period: Rerra, 1482-1485?, 1489-1501
• Date of device: 1482

Valentin Schumann, ? - 1542

• Working period: Damander, 1502-1534
• Date of device: unknown

John Siberch

• Working period: Cambridge, 1521 - 1584
• Date of device: 1521
• Note: Siberch was the printer of Cambridge.

Giovanni Battista Somasco

• Other names: Joannes Baptista Somaschus, Jacques Saccon
• Working period: Venice, 1576 -1589
• Date of device: unknown

Stagino da Trino

• Other names: Bernardino Ferrari Gialito, Stagino da Tridino, Da Monferra de Monteferrato
• Working period: Venice, 1483 - 1518
• Date of device: 1490

Jacob Thanner, ? - post 1530

• Other name: Jacobus Thanner
• Working period: Leipzig, 1501 - 1521
• Date of device: unknown

Michael Topie

• Working period: Lyon 1488 - 1490
• Date of device: unknown

Andreas de Torresanos, 1451 - 1529

• Other names: Torresanus, Tor(r)esanis, Andrea de Asula, Asola
• Working period: Venice, 1475, 1480 - 1529
• Date of device: 1508

Jehan Treschel

• Working period: Lyon, 1488 - 1489
• Date of device: unknown

Peter Treveris

• Working period: London, 1522 - 1532
• Date of device: 1522

Unknown

• Found: St Albans, 1480 - 1486

Benardinus Venetus de Vitalibus

(Together with Matthew de Vitalibus were called "Li Albanesoti")

• Working period: Venice, 1494 - 1536; Rome, 1508, 1522
• Date of device: 1498

Simon Vostre, ? - 1521

• Working period: Paris, 1486, 1489 - 1520
• Date of device: 1502

Johann Weissenburger

• Working period: Nürnberg, 1503 - 1513; Landshut: 1513 - 1531
• Date of device: 1506