Perhaps the device shown as Example [541] is a bit too suggestive for practical use by printers of the present day. Stephen Dolet’s name, in its literal meaning, has something to do with an ax, hewing and cutting. Dolet was a scholarly printer of the sixteenth century who suffered martyrdom at the stake in 1546.
The oval shape for imprint designs is not unpleasant, as will be seen by Example [542].
The Fezandat device was designed by Tory. The pheasant is a pun on the printer’s name. The device as a whole is pleasing.
The Riverside Press device is classically Greek in motif. Pan and his pipes appear on many of the marks of this press in various designs. The one shown is from “Pan’s Pipes,” a Riverside Press publication.
EXAMPLE 544
Printers’ marks based on architectural motifs
The winged ball, torch and other symbolic decorative devices are blended pleasingly on the mark (Example [542]), which appeared on the title-pages of the famous Eliot six-foot shelf of books, “The Harvard Classics,” 1909.
EXAMPLE 546
The monogram is an attractive form for printers’ devices