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LEARNING FROM THE GREEKS: AN EXHIBITION COMMEMORATING THE FIVE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE ALDINE PRESS
Babcock, Robert G. (editor)
Exhibition Catalogue of the many Greek manuscripts that were on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 1994 and then later at the Grolier Club. The exhibition celebrated the five-hundredth anniversary of the Aldine Press, which was founded in 1494 by the famous Italian printer Aldus Manutius. Manutius wanted to promote the Greek culture in his printings as well as Latin and Italian classics through his publishing. Black and white illustrations.
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CRASH! AN EXPERIMENT IN BLOCKMAKING AND PRINTING.
by Cox, Morris
Limited to 80 copies. Cave pp.63-67; Franklin pp.134-135. Morris Cox founded this private press to allow him freedom of expression for his poetry and artistic talents. Filled with color woodcuts created from "odds and ends of waste material, printed on a home-made press." He shows eight double pages of illustrations with explanations of how he created the illustration.

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