This is the mark or device of The Stinehour Press. Its source is the compass rose in John Foster's woodcut map of New England which appeared in the 1677 Boston edition of Hubbard's Narrative. According to the map's title it is 'the first that ever was cut here,' a claim accepted by Richard Holman, whose detailed account of the known states of the map was published by the Press in 1960. The version of the compass now in use is turned 45 degrees from its original orientation, to indicate the Press's location in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. The prototype in this form was engraved on boxwood by John Melanson; it appears when appropriate in colophons and can also be seen—gilded and much enlarged—on the slate entrance sign carved by Will Carter.
