Printer's marks

Printers' marks were identifying symbols used by early modern printers to sign their work. Often found on title pages, they combined imagery with initials or mottos. These marks served as a guarantee of quality and helped establish a printer's identity in a growing book market. Today, they offer valuable insights for book historical research.
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Dirk Martens

1446 - 1534

Anonymous (1520). Epistolae Graecae elegantissimæ, ex diuersis autoribus diligenter selectæ. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - bijzondere collecties CaaA816 (f. C4 verso).

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    Dirk Martens (Latin: Theodoricus Martinus) (1446 or 1447 – 28 May 1534) was a printer and editor in the County of Flanders. He published over fifty books by Erasmus and the very first edition of Thomas More's Utopia. He was the first to print Greek and Hebrew characters in the Netherlands. In 1856 a statue of Martens was erected on the main square of the town of his birth, Aalst. wikipedia

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Geeraerdt I van Wolsschaten

1563 - 1634

Silvestro Mazzolini (1619). Enchiridion concionatorvm, ex Roseto aureo rosæ aureæ R.P.F. Silvestri de Priero, Universiteit Antwerpen - Bibliotheek Ruusbroecgenootschap 3029 i 17 (f. +1 recto).

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Geeraerdt II van Wolsschaten

1603 - 1660

ANONYMOUS (1637). Den verholen minne-sangh tusschen de ziele en[de] Christum haeren bruydegom, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Bijzondere collecties: 7A 2013.

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Joannes-Petrus II de Cort

1725 - 1811

Sancti fundatores religiosorum ordinum by Jan Antoon Frans Pauwels (1777), Katholic University Leuven, Mauritz Sabbe Library 2-009259/C (f. M2 recto).

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The printers listed on this page come from the Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV), a retrospective bibliography of books printed before 1801 in what is now Flanders, including Brussels. All other data comes from Wikidata and Wikipedia. This website is a project by the Flemish Heritage Libraries. There are 249 printers on this page. This page was last updated on 2026-08-04.