Annales de l Imprimerie des Aldes ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs Edition.

RENOUARD, Antoine Augustin  Annales de l Imprimerie des Aldes ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs Edition.  Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard 1803.

First edition without the supplement of 1812 [as published in 1803]. 2 vols. 8vo pp[4], 446+engraved portrait frontispiece; xxviii, 250, [46], indices + 4pp, plates illustrating printer s colophons. French language. Stamps of University of London Library ( withdrawn ) to f.f.e.p.s. and title pages, blind stamps of Birkbeck college. Hinges cracked (but firm) between gathering 1 and verso type a page vol. 1, and in same place in vol 2 as well as between gathering 18 at 19. Marbled boards slightly scuffed with black leather labels two fine. Bump at head and tail of spine, corners bruised. £550 History of the printing house of Aldus Manutius through three generations. A grammarian and humanist, Aldus fame is above all connected to his greatness as a typographer and editor