Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings

This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic cabinet of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, the Prince of Bibliophiles, have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable information on Grolier and Hurtado de Mendoza's work, including catalogues, lists of bindings and indexes of printers, publishers, editors, commentators and translators.

Author: Anthony Hobson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/19/2012
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780521126175

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