The name of Cassell takes us back to the era of Charles Knight and John
Cassell, and the inauguration of the noble results which these two
pioneers achieved on behalf of cheap and healthy literature. The name of
the former is no longer associated with either printing or publishing;
but that of the latter is still one of the most prolific firms of
printers and publishers. Its Mark is founded on the name of “La Belle
Sauvage” Yard, Ludgate Hill, in which the business has been located for
a long series of years.
[Illustration: R. AND R. CLARK.
PRINTERS
R & R
PRINTERS
EDINBURG]
Two Edinburgh printers may be here conveniently referred to. Messrs. R.
and R. Clark, whose business was started in Hanover Street, Edinburgh,
in 1846, and removed to Brandon Street, in that city, in 1883, are well
known for the excellence of their printing. Mr. Austin Dobson thus
sings, in Mr. Andrew Lang’s Book on “The Library:”
“‘Of making many books,’ ’twas said,
‘There is no end;’ and who thereon
The ever-running ink doth shed
But proves the words of Solomon:
Wherefore we now, for Colophon,
From London’s City drear and dark,
In the year Eighteen-eighty-one,
Reprint them at the press of Clark.”
The accompanying Mark was designed by Mr. Walter Crane, and first used
by Messrs. Clark in 1881. It is used in several sizes. Of the very
handsome Mark of Messrs. T. and A. Constable, the Queen’s Printers, at
the University Press, we may mention that the legend is a hexameter; it
was written by Professor Strong, and contains two puns; the ship is an
old Constable device. The Marks of both Messrs. Chatto and Windus (who
succeeded to the business, started and carried on with such energy by
the late John Camden Hotten) and Messrs. Macmillan and Co. (whose firm
dates from the year 1843) are characterized by the extremest possible
simplicity.
[Illustration: T. FISHER UNWIN.
TFU
VITA SINE LITERIS MORS EST]
[Illustration: T. AND A. CONSTABLE.
FIRMA PERERRAT AQVAS ET CONSTABILITVR EVNDO
T A C]
[Illustration: WILLIAM MORRIS
kelmscott
William Morris]
The finest of the several Marks used by Messrs. George Bell and Sons is
given in two colours on the title-page of the present volume, and is a
play on the surname, the Aldine device being added to the bell. Another
example will be found on page 261.
[Illustration: WILLIAM MORRIS.