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Hui Luan Tran

Nino Nanobashvili, after working at the Central Institute for Art History and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, she has been Curator of Book and Print History at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz since 2022; Hui Luan Tran, Junior Professor of Early Modern Art at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2022. She researches printmaking media and their techniques

With contributions by Joost Depuydt, Saskia Limbach, Nino Nanobashvili, Katja Richter, Sophia Sarbinowski, Christine Sauer, Hui Luan Tran, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, Katja Richter

Ich drucke! Signet, Marke und Druckerzeichen seit dem Zeitalter Gutenbergs

Ich drucke! Signet, Marke und Druckerzeichen seit dem Zeitalter Gutenbergs

Did Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of letterpress printing, have a business card? Probably not. However, his successors introduced the so-called printer’s mark: predecessor to the publishing logo. These witty, creative ‘business cards’ have adorned the first or last pages of books since the early days of book printing, identifying the printers responsible.