Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century.

BARKER, Nicolas:

ISBN 10: 0823212475 / ISBN 13: 9780823212477

Published by New York: Fordham University Press, 1992., 1992

About this Item

Second Edition (first published in 1985 by the Chiswick Book Shop as a leaf book limited to 200 copies). xiii, 138 pp; 49 figs. Original cloth, 4to. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 24541

Bibliographic Details

Title: Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek ...

Publisher: New York: Fordham University Press, 1992.

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 2nd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This much-acclaimed work was first published in 1985 in an extremely limited edition of something under 200 copies. The first edition nonetheless sold out rapidly, and the reviewers were virtually universal in their recommendations that a new edition be published at a more accessible price, and thereby satisfy the additional demands on the marketplace. This new edition meets that need. This second edition is a substantially new work. It has been completely revised throughout, in the light both of the author's subsequent research and discoveries and of the reviewers' observations. It contains much additional new matter. The new illustrations reproduce setting copy, in the autograph of Marcus Musurus, of the Address to the Reader in the 1498 Aristophanes

Review:

"[Aldus Manutius] was the epitome of the renaissance scholar-publisher...For him the new learning hinged on the Greek Classics."