Letterpress coat of arms

Printer grasp, article from the former courtyard gate of the Emil Sommer Grünstadt book printing company , 1907 (now Grünstadt Museum )

The coat of arms of the book printers' guild was mainly used in the book trade by book printers and typesetters .

Blazon :

In the golden shield there is a black double-headed eagle with a tenacle with divisorium in the claws on the right and an angle hook on the left , a silver, red-armored griffin rising from the crown on the clasp helmet , in the claws two bales of pressure in black, the helmet cover in the colors of the griffin.

Like all guild coats of arms , it does not have a traffic status .

According to a beloved legend of printers and typesetters, the coat of arms of Emperor Friedrich III. awarded around 1470 and the griffin of Emperor Ferdinand I added as a figure around 1650. There is neither a document nor a credible copy of this award. From the coats of arms and coat-of-arms-like symbols of the book printers and their corporations (which were only actually organized as a guild in a few cities and probably only since the late 16th century ), the printer's marks , the individual workshops, offices and, since the 16th century, also have to be distinguished Are to be assigned to publishers. They too often have the shape of the respective city or territorial coat of arms, which is held by a griffin or basilisk .

literature

Wilhelm H. Lange: Book printer brands. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History . Volume 2: Bauer - Illumination. Beck, Munich 1947, Sp. 1357-1361 (also in: RDK Labor; digital ).
Eberhard Dilba: Typography lexicon and reader for everyone . 2nd Edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-2522-6 ( PDF ).

Web links

Overview of the coats of arms of the printing industry : bookbinders , book printers and typesetters, lithographers and stone printers , illuminators and graphic designers , papermakers , photochemographers , type cutters
The printer's heraldic bird
Letterpress coat of arms in the Heraldry Wiki

Individual evidence

^ 4 S special stamp 1982 500 years of printing in Austria ( memento from June 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Philatelieshop, post.at
↑ Karl Faulmann : Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. With special consideration of their technical development up to the present. Hartleben, Vienna et al. 1882, p. 330 . - London had had a guild since 1557, Leipzig only had a guild of printers in 1595.
^ Wilhelm H. Lange: Book printer brands. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume 2: Bauer - Illumination. Beck, Munich 1947, Sp. 1357-1361 (also in: RDK Labor, digital , accessed on March 9, 2016).

[1] 4 S special stamp 1982 500 years of printing in Austria ( memento from June 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Philatelieshop, post.at

[2] Karl Faulmann : Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. With special consideration of their technical development up to the present. Hartleben, Vienna et al. 1882, p. 330 . - London had had a guild since 1557, Leipzig only had a guild of printers in 1595.

[3] Wilhelm H. Lange: Book printer brands. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume 2: Bauer - Illumination. Beck, Munich 1947, Sp. 1357-1361 (also in: RDK Labor, digital , accessed on March 9, 2016).