Creator
Flaccus, Valerius.
Title
Argonautica.
Publisher
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani,
Date
May 1523.
Description
This Latin version of the famous story of Jason and the Argonauts was owned by the renowned Aldine bibliographer Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765–1853), and bound for him by the French binder Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux. Renouard’s name is stamped in gilt on the lower turn-in of the upper cover, and the binding includes the pink doublures and vellum endleaves that are characteristic of Renouard’s bindings.
Source
From the collection of G. Scott Clemons.