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The first editor : Aldus Pius Manutius

Title: The first editor : Aldus Pius Manutius / by Theodore Low De Vinne ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914.
Publication: New York : Targ Editions, 1983.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Targ) 88-63	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

39, [2] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

Targ editions.

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Note

"The text by Theodore Low De Vinne first appeared in Scribner's monthly, October 1881: vol. 22"--T.p. verso.
"Number seventeen of the Targ editions"--Colophon.
Pages [1-2] blank.
Illustrations : 9 prints : woodcut, 2 col. ; chiefly full-page. Include port. of Aldus printed in 3 colors; 2 versions of the Aldine device in orange and brown and orange; panorama of Venice in brown on 2 folded leaves. -- Large initial I in orange.
Includes 4 p. of facsims. from Aldine editions in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library.
Binding, publisher's, by A. Horowitz, of quarter linen and grayish red paper boards with blind impression of the ill. on p. [7] (Aldine device) on front cover. Issued in slipcase.

Call Number

*KP (Targ) 88-63

LCCN

85134071

OCLC

NYPG85-B78989

Author

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914.

Title

The first editor : Aldus Pius Manutius / by Theodore Low De Vinne ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.

Imprint

New York : Targ Editions, 1983.

Local Note

No. 194 of 250 copies designed by Antonio Frasconi and printed at The Grenfell Press, New York; signed by the artist and the printer, Leslie Miller.

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Added Author

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Frasconi, Antonio, 1919-2013.

Added Title

Targ editions.

Research Call Number

*KP (Targ) 88-63