Aldus and his dream book : an illustrated essay /
This edition is certain to appeal to the historian, bibliophile, art historian, designer, and student of the many psychologically rich and emblematic illustrations that have delighted and intrigued generations of readers and scholars.
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New York :
Italica Press,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Paul Brainerd.
- Printing comes to Italy.
- Aldus' earliest years.
- Aldus in Rome.
- Aldus in Ferrara and Carpi.
- Aldus arrives in Venice.
- The triumphs.
- The beginning of the Aldine Press.
- The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
- The inscriptions.
- Aldus' later years.
- The gardens.
- The trophies.
- The precinct of Venus.