Published in 1609, it comes in at 798 leaves, divided into multiple sections. Newly set forth with some amendment of diuers quotations: and a briefe discourse of his life. The works of the very learned and reuerend father in God Iohn Ievvell, not long since Bishop of Sarisburie. 1 Fists are not only for the front of the bookĪs books get longer, there needs to be a greater number of ways to indicate which gathering is which. Sayce’s study, the two symbols used here-the fist for the first gathering and the asterism for the second-are too uncommon for Sayce to draw any conclusions about their patterns of usage.
Sayce’s study demonstrated that the format of signature marks could indicate where a book was printed. The use of different symbols for the prelims one of the factors associated with different locales and periods, although according to R. In my post on “ Deciphering signature marks,” I explained that R. But if the main text starts with A, how are the preliminaries signed? With symbols, obviously! signing the opening leaves of Calvin’s Foure SermonsĪlthough English books typically start the main text with gathering B, leaving A for the prelims, printers in other regions used a number of different symbols for preliminary materials, most commonly the asterisk, but also daggers, crosses, parentheses, and pilcrows. The sermons themselves follow, beginning on A1r and continuing through H3v. This 1579 translation of Jean Calvin’s Quatre sermons avec exposition du Pseaume 87 ( STC 4439) begins with a dedicatory epistle from the translator John Field and a letter to the reader from Calvin. What comes before A? title page of Foure Sermons of Maister John Calvin So I thought the time has come to look at some of the other types of marks we find in signature marks.
I’ve written before about what sort of information we can learn from studying signature marks, and Goran wrote recently about the use of Latin abbreviations to indicate the gathering.
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