Description:
Barker, NicolasAldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Sandy Hook, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985.
Folio, first edition, with original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus's Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518, in the original publisher's binding and matching slipcase, prospectus and original receipt inserted.
[and] ten titles in bibliography and the history of printing, including D.B. Updike's Printing Types, and eight others. (11)
Estimate $700-900
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