Sign, Mark, Device etc."Framed device of a boy seated on a dolphin, encircled by a snake swallowing its tail. The motto Immortality is gotten by the study of letters. Below, an oval containing the monogram of WILLIAM and the sun, standing for the name of William Williamson, printer 1571-74. Within the oval is also the date 1573. (ɑ) With monogram as figured. (β) With monogram, but legend and date voided. Passed to John Legate (I or II) at an unknown date. (ɣ) Sun alone in oval, no legend nor monogram." – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 166]Image; Description
Sign, Mark, Device etc.Compartment with the Royal Arms at top; a pelican in her piety at foot with, to left, Cupid (?) holding the letter R, and, to right, a nightingale in a (? thorn) bush, with the word "Iugge". Probably passed to Richard Watkins in 1579. ? Passed to Thomas Dawson or William White c. 1598. – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 181]Image; Description
Sign, Mark, Device etc."Compartment with masks at top and sides, and, at foot, a nightingale in a thornbush. The motto Omne . bon? . supernæ. (ɑ) With motto as figured. Probably passed to Richard Watkins in 1579. ? Passed to Thomas Dawson or W. White, c. 1598. (β) With legend voided." – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 182]Image; Description
Sign, Mark, Device etc.A two-tailed mermaid blowing two horns. Probably passed to John Legate II in 1620. – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 259]Image; Description
Sign, Mark, Device etc.Framed device of a rose, a gillyflower and another flower on one stalk; with Heb Ddieu heb ddim and the initials R. I. Passed to William Jaggard in or before 1615. The intermediate history of the block is obscure. Passed from William to Isaac Jaggard in 1623, and from Isaac to Thomas and Richard Cotes in 1627. Passed to Richard Cotes alone in 1641. – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 283]Image; Description
Sign, Mark, Device etc.Circular device of a landscape above which is a coronet: about it the motto, Marcantia Reale. – Printer's Device[McKerrow Device No. 291]Image; Description
HeadingAdams, Thomas used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Adams, Thomas used in: Common Library Network (GBV), Göttingen (Germany)
Adams, Thomas used in: Biblioteca Nacional de España
Sources
Found inDictionaries of the printers and booksellers ... in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1557-1775, Sp. 2.. — STC. — McKerrow. — Balthasaris Castilionis comitis De curiali siue aulico, 1612. — WWW CERL Thesaurus
