Additions to the Danter Canon
In his Index to the Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in the
STC (1950), Morrison lists thirty-eight items known to have been
printed by Danter. The nineteen additional titles which appear below were
also printed in whole or in part by Danter, as is evidenced by the ornaments
which they contain. This represents a 50% increase in the Danter canon,
and
is perhaps some indication of the enormous amount of work which remains
to be done in identifying the printers of unsigned STC books.
In
Danter's case the general picture of him as a marginal jobbing printer is
hardly altered by these additions, but similar large increases in the canons
of
other printers might appreciably alter our estimation of their
importance.
The entries are arranged chronologically, by STC
number and
title within each year; the Danter ornaments which each contains are
identified:
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1591 22656 Smith, Henry. The affinities of the
faithfull.
Hoskins and Chettle for Ling and Busby; Folger copy reads 'Hoskins and
Danter for . . .'; H1, no other ornaments.
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1592 12245 Greene, Robert. Greenes
Groats-worth of
witte. [sigs. D1-F4]
See Sidney Thomas, "The Printing of Greenes Groatsworth of
Witte
and Kind-Harts Dreame," SB, XIX (1966),
196-197.
Factotum 8 only.
- [1593] 5123 Chettle, Henry. Kind harts
dreame. [sigs.
E1-H2]
See Sidney Thomas, op. cit. Device 295(a), ornament 15,
factotum
7, F1. The N on E2v and R on F3 do not occur in signed
Danter
books.
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1593 7675 A pleasant commodie of faire
Em. "The
printer was perhaps John Danter," Greg, Bibliography, I,
193. Copy
of device 149 on title-page; no other ornaments.
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1593 25122 Watson, T. The tears of
fancie. Entered
to Danter 11 August. Device 295(a), ornaments 5, 13, 14, G2.
- [1594] 10314 [Visitation articles] Peterborough.
Ornaments
5, 15, factotum 8.
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1594 12190 Grassi, Giacomo di. G. di Grassi
his true arte
of defence. Although this book displays Danter's factotum no. 2 on
the
title-page and no. 6 passim, the many other ornaments are not his. It would
be natural to suppose that the two blocks had passed out of his hands in
1592 or 1593 but for the fact that factotum 6 is used in 1606
6514,
'by R. B.' but probably by Stafford.
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1594 20867 Present remedies against the
plague.
Device 295(a), F1, I1.
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1595 3388 Borgetto, G. The deuils
legend. Ornaments
17, 18, factotum 3.
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1595 14707 Johnson, Thomas, tr.
Cornucopiœ, or
diuers secrets. Entered to Danter 30 October 1594. Ornaments 14,
17,
factotum 3.
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1595 20366 The first booke of Primaleon of
Greece
[tr. A.Munday] Device 277, ornament 17, factotums 3, 8, 9.
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1595 22885 Smythe, J. Instructions,
obseruations, and
orders mylitarie. 'by R. Johnes.' Danter probably printed the
prelims
only; ornament 17 appears on the title-page and sig. ¶, but the other
ornaments are not his.
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1595 23379 Stubbes, P. The anatomie of
abuses [4th
ed.] 'by R. Johnes'.
Ornament 17; the only other ornament is an initial R on sig. A2, not found
in
any signed Danter book, but the same as appears in 1597
3631 also
on sig. A2 (see below).
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1596 1433 Barley, William. A new booke of
tabliture.
[Barley published this book, but there is no evidence, despite
STC,
that he was the author]. Ornaments 9 and 10; also contains a large
headpiece
not found in any signed Danter book.
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1596 5737 Copley, Anthony. A fig for
fortune. 'by R.
Iohnes'. See Greg. The Library, IV, xxv (1944-5), 20: "In
1598
[sic] Richard Jones entered a copy called A fig for
fortune . . .
and the same year appeared an edition ostensibly printed by him (but
actually
by Danter at his assignment)." No evidence for this statement is given. The
ornaments on the title-page, and sigs. A4 and B are Danter's (5, 11),
though
the ornamental initial A on A4 and the V of the same alphabet on sig B. do
not appear in any signed Danter book.
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1596 14567 Jesus psalter. Although
STC
queries [Douay?], Greg and Boswell, Records,
p. 56, suggest
that this is the edition printed surreptitiously by Danter. The common
type-ornaments look like his, and the only ornament, an IHS block at the
end, may be the same used by Stafford in 1600 21291 on the
title-page.
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1596 14677 Johnson, Richard. The most
famous history of
the seauen champions of christendome. Entered to Danter 20 April.
Ornaments 5, 12, 16, A2, B1, C1, D1, I2, T3; other ornaments used in the
work are not found elsewhere in Danter's books, which suggests that the
printing was shared.
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1596 18418 A booke of . . .
Needleworks. Ornaments
8, unrecorded V (an old Berthelet block, used in 1540
9402)
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1597 3631 Breton, Nicholas, The arbour of
amorous
deuises. 'by R. Iohnes'. Device 295(b) on title-page and sig. A2.
On the
evidence of its appearance in this book McKerrow suggested that the block
passed to Richard Jones at an unspecified date, though expressing doubts
about it (Devices, pp. 115, 169). However, the ornament was
used
constantly by Danter from 1592 to 1597, and almost certainly passed
directly
to Stafford in 1599 with a third of Danter's ornament stock. Other than
295(b) and Jones's device 283 on the title-page the book contains only an
ornamental initial R (sig. A2), the same appearing in 1595
23379 (see
above).
