Handbuch für Kunstliebhaber und Sammler über die vornehmsten Kupferstecher und ihre Werke: vom Anfange dieser Kunst bis auf gegenwärtige Zeit ; chronologisch und in Schulen geordnet: Italiänische Schule
This is a late eighteenth-century German handbook for art lovers and collectors, written by Michael Huber and edited by Carl Christian Heinrich Rost, published in 1799 and cataloguing the Italian school of printmakers and their works by period. The two pictures are library marks from the Heidelberg University Library: an oval ownership stamp reading Ex Bibliotheca Universitatis Heidelbergensis, and a set of monogram and device stamps including a dated 1516 cartouche. A designer could take from them the look of period typeset-and-stamp ownership marks, with their ornate script and interlaced monograms.
