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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Example Sentences

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

His printer's mark was a graft, or young tree, growing out of a tun.

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Aos. qua||tro dias do mes de Feureyro.—At the top, printer's mark.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

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 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William

But if the illustrations are poor and dull the frontispiece and the full-page woodcut of the printer’s mark are very much the reverse.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair