The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade
edited by Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet
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Reviews
L’almanacco bibliografico, n° 49, marzo 2019, p. 9, review by Natale Vacalebre
The Library, 7.20.1, March 2019, p. 121, review by Neil Harris (as part of an 8-page omnibus review of all recent Aldine publications: in the online edition search for “Afterlife of Aldus”)
Bibliothecae.it, 8 (2019), 1, pp. 341-43, review by Simona Inserra
The Book Collector, 68 (2019), pp. 312-16, review by Lotte Hellinga
Table of Contents
Foreword
by Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet
I. The Aldine Press after Aldus (1515–1598)
From the Printer’s Mind to the Author’s Hand: Paolo Manuzio and His Tre libri di lettere volgari (1556–1560)
by Lodovica Braida
Strategies and Failures of a Renaissance Publishing Venture: The Accademia Veneziana and the Myth of Aldus
by Shanti Graheli
The End of the Manutius Dynasty (1597)
by Angela Nuovo
II. Private Aldine Collections in Europe
Five Centuries of Aldine Collecting in Italy: Known and Less-Known Cases
by Luca Rivali
Aldine Editions in Early Modern France
by Shanti Graheli
Aldine Collecting and Aristocratic Values in French Bibliophily Before and After the French Revolution
by François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles and Jean Viardot
III. The Modern Aldine Book Trade
Selling Aldus in the UK (c. 1630–2015): Towards a Checklist of British Sale Catalogues of Books Published by the Manuzio Family
by Paolo Sachet
The Aldine in British Book Trade History: A Look at Three Major Collections
by Nicholas Poole-Wilson
Aldine Tributaries Collecting Aldus Manutius in the 21st Century
by G. Scott Clemons
Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494–1598): Catalogue of an Exhibition
by Jill Kraye, Stephen Parkin and Paolo Sachet
Index of Names