Renaissance Book Collecting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521651295)

This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic "cabinet" of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, "the Prince of Bibliophiles", have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable information on Grolier and Hurtado de Mendoza's work, including catalogues, lists of bindings and indexes of printers, publishers, editors, commentators and translators.

Author: Anthony Hobson
ISBN-10: 0521651298
ISBN-13: 9780521651295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/08/1999
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 11.70h x 8.50w x 1.00d