Hall of Noble Words Printers' Marks

	Printers' Marks
The designs at the end of each beam in the Hall of Noble Words are the graphic symbols used by early printers to designate their printing press. These printer's marks were included on all the books printed at that press.

West Wall		East Wall

Fust and Schoeffer, Mainz, Fifteenth century			Caxton, London, Fifteenth century
Froben, Basel, Fifteenth century			Pynson, London, Fifteenth century
Plantin, Antwerp, Sixteenth century			Rosenbach, Barcelona, Fifteenth century
Van den Keere, Ghent, Sixteenth century			De La Roca, Valencia, Fifteenth century
Estienne, Paris, Sixteenth century			Espinosa, City of Mexico, Sixteenth century
Du Prè Lyons, Fifteenth century			Harper and Brothers, New York, Nineteenth century
Aldus, Venice, Sixteenth century			Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, Nineteenth century
Giunta, Florence, Sixteenth century			Southwest Press, Dallas, Twentieth century