[Grabhorn Press] Aldus Pius Manutius; Theodore Low De Vinne, essay. Aldus Pius Manutius. Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1924.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Number 171 of 250 copies. with an original leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed in Venice in 1499, numbered 147 in pencil to the top corner. The leaf contains text only. Italian printer and humanist, Aldus Pius Manutius (1449/1452 - 1515) founded the Aldine Press and spent his later years publishing rare texts in their original Greek or Latin forms. Bound in brown paper covered boards with dark brown cloth spine. Black label on front cover with the Aldine Press device. Gilt title to spine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press on Kelmscott paper in Poliphilus type. Illustrated with decorative headpieces after wood-cuts in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards and spine ends.A few spots of soiling and scuffing to boards. Bumping to foot of spine. Foxing to original leaf along margins, else clean and bright. Unpaginated. [34 pages.] PRI/102623.

Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.