Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the 15th Century - Hardcover

Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823212475 ISBN 13: 9780823212477

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This much-acclaimed work was first published in 1985 in an extremely limited edition of something under 200 copies. The first edition nonetheless sold out rapidly, and the reviewers were virtually universal in their recommendations that a new edition be published at a more accessible price, and thereby satisfy the additional demands on the marketplace. This new edition meets that need. This second edition is a substantially new work. It has been completely revised throughout, in the light both of the author's subsequent research and discoveries and of the reviewers' observations. It contains much additional new matter. The new illustrations reproduce setting copy, in the autograph of Marcus Musurus, of the Address to the Reader in the 1498 Aristophanes

About this title

About the Author

Nicolas Barker, of the British Library, is the best-known and most widely published bibliographical scholar of our generation.

Review

"[Aldus Manutius] was the epitome of the renaissance scholar-publisher...For him the new learning hinged on the Greek Classics."

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0823212475
• ISBN 13: 9780823212477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138