Publisher: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Los Angeles : University Research Library, Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press Publication date: 1995 Subjects: Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515 Manuzio family Printing Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

In Praise of Aldus Manutius: A Quincentenary Exhibition

Politics & Social Sciences

PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

Fletcher, H. George

Manuzio, Aldo

University of California, Los Angeles Library Dept. of Special collect

Social Sciences

Pierpont Morgan Library

Limited to 600 copies. These documentary studies on the life and work of Aldus Manutius contain new bibliographical information the various Aldine printings, a study of documents relating to the Aldine family and further biographical information on the Aldines. The final quarter of Manutius's life marks a watershed in the history of classical scholarship. Setting out to make available unpublished classic Greek works in their original language, Manutius produced two revolutionary changes simultaneously. He provided standard, plain texts of classical authors and made them in a portable, handy size. This was no small improvement since many readers and scholars of these texts lead active and mobile lives. Manutius was also responsible for the development of what is now known as italic type. Small booklabel on front pastedown. This book has become very difficult to find. xiii, 206 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

New Aldine studies: Documentary essays on the life and work of Aldus Manutius

Biographies & Memoirs

B.M. Rosenthal, Inc

Before dust jackets wrapped every hardcover behind a shield of paper, a book's binding was its only advertisement, and the shelves of bibliophiles were lined with staid leather-bound tomes. Then came the Art Deco designs of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler, who transformed bookbinding into a medium of playful and dazzling experimentation and craftsmanship. Their colorful, imaginative works, often made in exotic materials, are found only in a few prized collections and have rarely been available to the general public. now, this selection of more than sixty designs, colored-paper maquettes, and realized bindings are collected in one exquisite volume, with insightful texts introducing the work and discuss its revolutionary effect on modern design. Among the brilliant array of bindings are ones made especially for works by Colette, Paul Verlaine, Andre Gide, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stephane Mallarme, Michel Leiris, and Jean Giraudoux. Art Deco Bookbinding accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Science Library beginning in February 2004.

Art Deco Bookbindings: The Work of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler

Peyré, Yves

Reference

Princeton Architectural Press

French Book Arts: Manuscripts, Books, Bindings, Prints, and Documents, 12th - 21st Century

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Grolier Club

A beautifully produced celebration of bookbinding, its design and history. The average reader may not pay them any mind, but to those steeped in book history and collecting, bookbindings are simultaneously art and conveyors of provenance and backstory They often give expression to a book's contents and always are delightfully tactile--all but the most pedestrian of them have a story to tell. The importance of historic and fine bindings to the founders of the Grolier Club is evidenced by their establishment in 1895 of the Club Bindery, as well as by the more than thirty-five exhibitions of bookbindings that have been held at the club. Ranging from early incunabula to newly produced books from the present day, the Grolier Club collection boasts some of the finest bookbindings in the world. This meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated tome highlights the milestones among European and American bindings from that collection. It's a delight for the eye as much as an important scholarly work for the sophisticated bibliophile. &nbsp;

Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s–2020

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