Aldus Manutius and His Thesaurus Cornucopiae of 1496

Description: Hardcover with acetate dust jacket in very good condition with minimal wear and pages are clean and unmarked. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Containing the first appearance in English of the Prologue in which Aldus announces his plans to publish the first printed editions of Aristotle's works and describes his Thesaurus as containing 'practically everything that anyone could desire in order to achieve perfect knowledge of Greek literature.'" Translated by Antje Lemke with an introduction by Donald P. Bean. This is a collection of facsimile pages of the Latin prologue and specimen pages of the Greek text from the Thesaurus Cornucopiae in the Brewster House Typographical Collection. From the introduction: "Aldus, who has been called the father of book publishing, hoped to combine the practical demands of book publishing with the artistic ideals of fine printing. It was his intent to produce attractive, useful, and instructive books at a fair price. In the Thesaurus Cornucopiae of 1496, Aldus and his collaborators collected and edited with incredible labor the work of thirty-four ancient grammarians. The volume established the high goals of careful editing and scholarship maintained by the numerous scholars who later composed the so-called Aldine Academy, and who edited the long line of editiones princeps of Aesop, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Homer, Pindar, Plutarch, and Sophocles which the Aldine press published, in addition to the complete works of Aristotle promised in the 1496 ...

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