Printer’s Mark of Kraft Müller

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Printer's mark of Kraft Müller — Crato Mylius.

Artist

Name:: Unknown

Illustration

Subject:: Animals, Ornaments & patterns
Technique:: Woodcut
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The Boston Public Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Marques typographiques, vol. 2
Author(s):: Silvestre, Louis-Catherine
Publisher:: Paris: Renou et Maulde (printer), 1867
Open Library:: View record.

Description

Printer’s mark of Kraft Müller, also known as Crato Mylius, showing a lion carrying a column on its shoulder and holding a shield featuring a man (Samson?) waving a jaw bone. Kraft Müller (1503-1547) was a printer in Wittenberg and Strasbourg.

Keywords: 16th century, 1860s, 19th century, black & white, Germany, heraldry, lion, mammal, reference book