FIRMIN-DIDOT (Ambroise). Alde Manuce et l'Hellénisme a Venise.1875

Paris: Ambroise Firmin-Didot, First edition, lxviii, 646, [1]pp., frontis.,, 4 plates, cont. half calf, marbled boards, corners rubbed otherwise a nice copy. First edition of this classic monograph on Aldus. As well as a biographical account it gives a bibliographical and technical account of the products of the Aldine press from 1494 to 1515. From the reference library of Prof. T. A. Birrell.