printer's mark

American  

noun

1. a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.

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printer's mark

Without looking back once, he opened the door with the Venetian printer's mark on it and closed it quietly behind him.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

The date of printing is fixed by competent authorities as 1500, on the evidence of the states of the printer's mark and of the cut of the Crucifixion.

From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Betson, Thomas

Being only three, perhaps you might have clapt a D. at the corner and let it have past as a printer's mark to the uninitiated, as a delightful hint to the better-instructed.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

Being only three, perhaps you might have clapped a D. at the corner, and let it have past as a printer's mark to the uninitiated, as a delightful hint to the better instructed.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

This was the first book printed at the Kelmscott Press in two colours, and the first book in which the smaller printer’s mark appeared.

From The Art and Craft of Printing by Morris, William