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Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou, Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions ... / par Ant. Aug. Renouard. Tome premier [-troisième]

Accession number
PML 125609-11
Creator
Renouard, Ant. Aug. (Antoine Augustin), 1765-1853.
Published
A Paris : Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1825.
Notes
"Éditions Aldine qui manquent a ma collection et que je desire acquérir," last four pages, v. 3.
"Notice sur la famille des Junte, et liste sommaire de leurs éditions jusqu'en 1550": v. 3, p. 321-410.
Advertisements printed on v. 2, p. 323-329.
Aldine printer's mark on title, v. 1; Renouard printer's mark, v. 2-3.
List of subscribers (to paper edition), v. 2, p. 413-420.
Lists of editions printed on vellum: v. 2, p. 425-428.
One of three copies printed on vellum (see v. 3, p. 420).
Pagination: v. 1: [8], 425, [5] p. (including 2 blank leaves), [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: [8], 434, [6] p. (including 2 blank leaves), [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: xl, 420, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates (some folded).
Plates in v. 1 and 2 are portraits, with the same plate printed on both vellum and paper; all plates in v. 3 are printed on vellum.
Inserted at end of v. 3: "Alde l'Ancien ... et Henri Estienne" (1838 imprint), PML 125611.2.
Previously shelved at E3/ 101/ A.
Description
3 v. : ill. (ports., facsims.) ; 24 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Ant. Aug. Renouard (printer's mark on binding); James Toovey(?)
Binding
Dark red morocco, gold-tooled with Renouard's printer's mark, with dentelles, by Bauzonnet, in a modern case.
Classification
Department