The printers of Basle in the XV. & XVI centuries : their biographies, printed books and devices / by Charles William Heckethorn.

  • Charles William Heckethorn
Date:
1897
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Credit: The printers of Basle in the XV. & XVI centuries : their biographies, printed books and devices / by Charles William Heckethorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Homes of the Basle Printers. N some cases the houses occupied by the Printers of Basle, enumerated in this work, have been indicated in the biographical notices accompanying the lists of the books printed by them. But as to bibliophiles, and especially to bibliophile pilgrims—of whom this very publication should create many—more precise and fuller details may be acceptable, most acceptable indeed, particularly when the houses can still be identified, a record, as complete as it is now possible to make it, is given in this concluding chapter, under the names of the printers, arranged in alphabetical order. N.B. Strasse or Gasse means street ; Gas skin (the diminutive of Gasse) small or narrow street, lane ; Platz, a square or open space ; Berg, hill; Hof, mansion or large house ; Vor stack, suburb ; zum or zur, at the. Until houses were numbered, a practice which was not introduced at Basle, as even in London it was not, until about the middle of the last century, they were known by their signs or appellations. Names following those of the printers, therefore, are those of the houses they occupied. Where identification was possible, the street and present number of the house are given, I. Amerbach, John : Kaiserstiihl, now Rheingasse (Little Basle), 23 ; Stift, adjoining the garden of the Carthusian monastery (see p. 29) ; zum Sessel, now Todtengasslein, 3.
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