Dutch Printers' Devices
15th–17th century
A catalogue of the devices — printers' marks — used by printers and booksellers in the Northern Netherlands, with their mottoes, Iconclass subject notations and the years in which each printer or bookseller is known to have used them.
1948 devices · 1501 printers & booksellers · 4169 recorded usages
Intro
The arrangement of the catalogue: selection, entries, iconography and usage.
Browse A–Z
Printers and booksellers alphabetically, each with all of their devices.
Name Index
All names, including variants, linked to their entries.
Index by Iconclass
Devices by subject notation, per main category.
Motto Index
Alphabetical list of mottoes found on the devices.
Visual Survey
Every device at a glance, each linked to its device page.
By Hans Brandhorst · based on Peter van Huisstede & Hans Brandhorst, Dutch Printer's Devices 15th–17th Century (Nieuwkoop, De Graaf Publishers, 1999).