Renaissance Book Collecting; Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings

Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto size, 295 pp. Anthony Hobson (1921-2014) was the Director and Associate of Sotheby's, President of the Association Internationale de Bibliophoile, Honorary President of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, and a past President of the Bibliographical Society.

This book studies, and compares, two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's collection was a bibliophile 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection, a catalogue of the latter's printed books provided here for the first time. The final chapter studies the principal binding shops in Venice in the mix-sixteenth century.

This edition includes 87 illustrations, the late H. M. Nixon's list of Grolier's bindings classified by workshop and eleven other appendices, indices, and a bibliography (n.b., info from dust jacket).

___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full burgundy cloth, gilt decorations on the front and rear boards, black stamped label with gilt lettering on the spine, frontispiece is a full-colour photograph, volume replete with other images (black and white); large quarto size (just under 12" by 8.5"), pagination: [i]-xix], blank, [1]-275. Cream paper dust jacket with burgundy lettering and black decorative border on the front cover, black lettering on the rear, and black and burgundy lettering on the spine; front flap a summary of the book, back flap has author bio; jacket unclipped although without a printed price.

___CONDITION: Volume is in fine condition, bright and clean boards, square corners, clean pages, and tight binding; dust jacket also fine, free from any wear, tears, or discolouration.

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