LOWRY (Martin). Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe.1991

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, First edition, xvii, 286pp., ex-library copy with the usual markings, 13 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. This book tells the story of how printing came to Venice, and how the most commercially advanced power in Europe exploited the new invention to disseminate the scholarship of the Renaissance. The early chapters examine the values and careers of the men who backed the first printers. The author's attention the turns to the printers themselves, particularly to the Frenchman Nicholas Jenson, the most influential publisher/printer of the age.