Creator
Suetonius
Title
Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Latin)
Coverage
Lyon
Publisher
Balthasar de Gabiano
Date
1509
Description
The first book to carry the name of Jean Grolier, dedicated to him and edited by his Italian tutor, Gaspare Mazzoli da Argile. The binding of brown goatskin, tooled in blind and gilt, is Roman, ca. 1510, attributed by Anthony R. A. Hobson to the Binder of the Cambridge Miscellany. The book’s format copies the Portable Library of Aldus Manutius — Italic type, plain text, handy size — and was meant to deceive purchasers as a genuine Aldine publication from Venice.
Source
Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1890.
Format
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