Dear Professor Wilkie or current Ex Libris List Moderator -
Kindly post the query below at your first convenience. I'm a new member, having subscribed just today. See what you can do. With appreciative regards & good wishes,
Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
Fellow, Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, NJ
mulvihill@nyc.rr.com
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Re: Emending Printer's Ornament, c. 1660-1670s
Hello, colleagues -
Might anyone on the List kindly direct me to a discussion, in any medium, on the rather common practice, I take it, of 17thC English printers emending (i.e., altering, restyling) and then reusing earlier ornaments? I'm seeking documented instances of this practice, circa 1660s-1670s.
Though I've been deep into Irishwomen's political writings (pre-1800) these last few years, a colleague has recently taken me back to an interesting situation of an anonymous printer who evidently reconfigured a pre-existing ornament of possibly the 1630s or '40s for use as a factotum on a privately-published (even unauthorized) broadsheet poem of 1679, addressed to Charles II on the Popish Plot. (In such a treacherous climate, there was special handling indeed of certain content at all levels of literary production, from authorship and presswork to product transmission.)
I've been casting a wide net on the matter, with some good catches, to date; and I hasten to thank several specialists, including graphic arts practitioners, who've already responded, earlier this month.
Kindly reply off list for further details & with your thoughts, musings, direction, etc.
Cordial regards and 'Happy Summer,' all,
Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, NJ.
mulvihill@nyc.rr.com
http://www.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/
www.yeatssociety.org/coole.html
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