Printers' Devices Record | |||||
40 x 25 mm.
© At the Sign of the Gargoyle |
Printer/Publisher: At the Sign of the Gargoyle (Chicago, Ill.). Forgue, Norman W. | ||
Country: Illinois (U.S.) | City: Chicago | Date: 1943 | |
Keywords: gargoyles | |||
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Device Designer: Noheimer, Mathias | |||
Device Reference: Weygand, J.L. Collection of pressmarks p. 31 Go to Page: 30 32 |
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Notes: "This mark of Norman Forgue, At the Sign of the Gagoyle, used in three books, was drawn by Mathias Noheimer; it was first used on the title page of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in 1943. Noheimer is well known for his murals and exquisite portraits in minature painted on ivory." © James Lamar Weygand | |||
Source: Weygand, James Lamar. A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private. Nappanee, Ind., Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1956. |
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Location: University of Florida | |||
URL: https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/gargoyle.htm |