Description: The Aldine, A Typographic Art Journal - Volume VI, 1873, Printed and Published by James Sutton & Company, 240 pp, 16.5 x 12", folio. In good condition. Half-leather boards scuffed around edges and corners are rubbed. Gilt ruling and lettering lightly chipped, but still legible. Leather corners on both boards are beginning to peel, exposing wooden boards. Front gutter split, cording exposed. Bookseller's ticket on front paste-down: C.C. Pursell Bookseller & Stationer. Marbled end-papers. Text-block clean, no known previous ownership or marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. The Aldine was a monthly arts magazine published in New York City from 1868 to 1879. Richard Henry Stoddard was the editor in chief from 1871 to 1875. The magazine contains high quality engravings of works by Thomas Moran and other Hudson River School painters. It also featured many reproductions of works by popular European artists such as Gustave More and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The world "Aldine" is defined as an adjective, "designating editions of Greek and Latin classics issued at Venice by Aldus Manutius". Aldus Pius Manutius (1449-1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius published rare manuscripts in their original Greek and Latin forms. He commission the creation of typefaces in Greek and Latin resembling the humanist handwriting of his time; typefaces that are the first known precursor of italic type. FORN-MSB-0723-0694-HK437
Price: 125 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: James Sutton & Company
Topic: Art
Subject: Art
Original/Facsimile: Original
