The printed book, its history, illustration, and adornment, from the days of Gutenberg to the present time (1887)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 152
ompass,with the motto La-bore et constantia.Plantin died atthe age of seventy-four, leaving aprosperous busi-ness to be dividedbetween his threedaughters. Hisfirst house at Ant-werp employed seventeen presses even at the time when he was introuble, and he had branches at Paris and Leyden, of… … Fig. 64. —Plantins mark. 142 THE PRINTED BOOK. is now a typographical museum. The Piantin printingoffice—Officina Plantiniana—was as well managed byits descendants as b}^ himself. The fashion of engravingin metal spread itself before the death of t*he head ofthe house, and his successors continued…
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