As part of a large collection of "books about books" and the history of printing, typography, leaf books, fine press books, marbling, parchment and paper, book-binding and book collecting, and the book arts, we offer here one of the most beautiful books on a Renaissance library's collection and an important contribution to the history of bindings:
HOBSON, ANTHONY
Apollo and Pegasus. An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library.
1600. Original publisher's dark-blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering on red label spin, blindstamped ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: coloured frontispiece, xviij, 250pp., [ij], 1 other coloured plate, 50 text-illustrations, family tree Grimaldi family, 32 page-large bl. & wh. plates, list plates & figures, abbreviations, index Apollo & Pegasus bindings, index books printed before 1600 and manuscripts, general index. Very fine copy. Printed in 652 copies.
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