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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Michael Hillenius Hoochstratanus

1476 - 1558

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    Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten or Michel Hillenius (Hoogstraten, c. 1476, – Antwerp, 22 July 1558), was a Flemish printer, publisher, bookseller and bookbinder. His printing press put out publications in a wide range of genres, including imperial ordinances, almanacs, devotional literature, anthologies of customs, textbooks, etc. He also printed humanistic writings by Erasmus, Adrianus Barlandus and Jacobus Latomus as well as the first Dutch-language version of the story of Till Eulenspiegel. His multiple editions of the Bible in Dutch translation were among the first to be published. Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten is regarded as the most important publisher active in Antwerp in the first half of the sixteenth century. wikipedia

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Jan Lettersnijder

1480 - 1527

Een nieu eualuacie boecxken[...] vander munten va[n]den gouden en[de] silueren gheualueerde penninghen (1526), Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience B 78694:g (f. [A]1 recto):

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Willem Silvius

1520 - 1580

Olaus Magnus: De wonderlijcke historie vande noordersche landen (1562), Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge GGB374 (f. 2O7 verso)

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Balthazar Vivien

Antonius Anselmo (1662). Tribonianvs Belgicvs sive Dissertationes forenses ad Belgarvm principvm edicta, Stadsarchief Mechelen A.03894 (f. [A]2 recto).

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Maximiliaen Graet

Petrus Marchant (1665). Cophini fragmentorvm panis verbi Dei, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Maurits Sabbebibliotheek 2-029596/B (f. «03C0»1 recto).

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Petrus III Bellerus

Cristobal Crespi de Valdaura (1667). Observationes illustratæ decisionibus, Stadsarchief Mechelen A.03787 (f. π2 recto).

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Reynier Sleghers

Gabriel Meurier (1670). Conivgations flamen francoisfs [!], Universiteit Gent Acc.015004.

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Philips Vleugaert

- 1678

J.B. Wouters, Het wonder leven, van de H. Rosa de S. Maria, van Lima in Peru, maghet uyt de derde order van den H. Dominicus (1671), KULeuven Maurits Sabbebibliotheek 2-000705/A:3 (8990144)

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Jacoba de Somere

Prognosticatie ofte Voor-segginghe vande revolutie deses jaers by Jan van Waereghem (1679), Ghent University, Boekentoren BIB.G.000643 (f. B4 recto).

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Eugenius Henricus II Fricx

1644 - 1730

F. Tavernier, Advertissement omme d'heer Jan VVain contrewarandain [...] (1680)

Stedelijke Erfgoedbibliotheek-Stadsarchief Mechelen M.03607(a)/A (f. I2 verso)

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Pieter van der Meersche

Naader bewijs (1701), Antwerp University, Central Library RG 3087 C 3.2 (f. A1 recto).

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Petrus Foppens

- 1761

Joannes Franciscus Foppens (1734). Diplomatum Belgicorum nova collectio sive Supplementum ad Opera Adiplomatica, Universiteit Antwerpen - Bibliotheek Stadscampus MAG-P 14.395:3-4 (1# f. 7A2 verso).

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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.