Title: Aldus Pius Manutius. With an essay by Theodore Low De Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnertomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499
Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low
Description: Illustrated with decorative headpieces after wood-cuts in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia, plus an inserted original leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499. 11¾x7¾, brown boards backed with black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in hand-set Poliphilus type on Kelmscott paper.This copy with a leaf of text, without illustration. Other copies had leaves with ornamental borders or woodcuts with the original issue price varying depending on the value of the leaf. GB 67.
Heading: (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book)Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: 1924
Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low
Description: Illustrated with decorative headpieces after wood-cuts in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia, plus an inserted original leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499. 11¾x7¾, brown boards backed with black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in hand-set Poliphilus type on Kelmscott paper.This copy with a leaf of text, without illustration. Other copies had leaves with ornamental borders or woodcuts with the original issue price varying depending on the value of the leaf. GB 67.
Heading: (Grabhorn Press - Leaf Book)Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: 1924
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Light wear to extremities; else very good.
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