Creator
Julius Caesar.
Title
Commentariorum de Bello Gallico libri.
Coverage
Venice
Publisher
Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani
Date
April–November–December 1513.
Description
This first Aldine edition of Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War perfectly illustrates Aldus’s intent that his publications be put to scholarly use. The two-page map of France was colored by hand stencil while in production. The color scheme laid out in Aldus’s preface is designed to enable the reader to follow the geography of the action of the text. As in most copies, this exemplar includes corrections in the hand of Aldus. Bound in contemporary Venetian calf, annotated throughout in a contemporary hand.
Source
From the collection of G. Scott Clemons.