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

After it, on B iv a, is Robert Coplande's device, measuring 80 × 95; a wreath of roses and leaves, comprised within two concentric circles: within it the printer's mark.

From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

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

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)

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