Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings [Hardcover]

Anthony Hobson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521651298 | ISBN-13: 978-0521651295 | Publication Date: August 13, 1999

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.

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"It is the well-written and graceful kind of work we have come to expect from the author, replete with scholarship, good humor, and insight." Professional Bibliographical Society of America

Book Description

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 commisioned by Jean Grolier--'the Prince of Bibliophiles' - have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. He set out to form for Spain a collection of Greek manuscripts to rival that being formed for France by Francis I's agents.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521651298
• ISBN-13: 978-0521651295
• Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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