Creator
Bembo, Pietro.
Title
Petri Bembi de Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem Liber.
Coverage
Venice
Publisher
Aldus Manutius
Date
February 1496
Description
This short tale of a journey to Mount Aetna undertaken by Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) and his father, Bernardo, was printed in a new Roman font designed and cut for Aldus by Francesco Griffo (1450–1518). Its elegant simplicity has inspired type designers to this day, and is arguably the most influential design in the history of typography. This text, as in most copies, contains manuscript corrections in the hand of Aldus. Bound in green goatskin by Samuel Charles Kalthoeber for George John, Lord Spencer (1758–1834), it was subsequently in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.
Source
From the collection of T. Kimball Brooker.