Aldus Manutius Development Greek Script by Nicolas Barker (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 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.

cloth, slipcase. Leaf Book (illustrator). small 4to. cloth, slipcase. xiv, 115, [4] pages. Limited to 200 copies (Chalmers 184; Disbound and Dispersed, 184). Private bookplate of Mark Louis Callister on the front pastedow. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. With Original Leaves from the First Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. With new text by Barker, fifty illustrations and four leaves showing four different Greek Aldine types. Nicolas Barker's scholarly study includes chapters on the views of Robert Proctor; Greek Exiles in the West; Greek Types before Aldus and their Sources; the Aldine Greeks; The Technique of Typefounding; The Achievement of Aldus. Designed by Stephen Harvard, and printed and bound at Meriden-Stinehour. "Leaf books' are not a genre I care for as such, admitting that they have sometimes been the occasion of good and useful work. The idea of bringing together all four of the Aldine Greeks, however, has a special appeal." -preface, p. xiii A second edition of this work was issued by Fordham University Press in 1992, but does not include specimen leaves.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xiv, 115, [4], plus 4 specimen leaves from Aldine works; with 46 illus.; tall 4to; slipcase, crimson linen with gilt title on upper cover and spine. Nicolas Barker's scholarly study includes chapters on the views of Robert Proctor; Greek Exiles in the West; Greek Types before Aldus and their Sources; the Aldine Greeks; The Technique of Typefounding; The Achievement of Aldus. With four original Aldine specimen leaves, from: Aristotle (1497), Crastonus's Dictionarium Graecum (1497), Euripedes (1503), and the Septuagint (1518). (A second edition of this work was issued by Fordham University Press in 1992, but does not include specimen leaves.) Designed by Stephen Harvard; printed and bound by Meriden-Stinehour Press. Original prospectus with typed letter signed from Herman Cohen (proprietor of the Chiswick Bookshop) laid in. One of 200 copies only. A fine copy of a beautiful book production. Chalmers 184.