RENOUARD, Antoine-Augustin (1765-1853). Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions. Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1803.

Details
RENOUARD, Antoine-Augustin (1765-1853). Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions. Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1803.

2 volumes, 8o (205 x 127 mm). 2 engraved frontispiece portraits and 4 plates of Aldine devices. Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt (front joint of vol. 2 split, some minor wear to extremities). Provenance: Marquis de Fortia (bookplate); "C.W." (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, without the 1812 supplement, of "Renouard's famous bibliography of the output of the Aldine Press, 1494-1598" (Breslauer & Folter 115). Besterman III, 5153; Bigmore & Wyman II, 251. (2)

More from Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana The Third Portion:

View All
View All