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; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a catalogue of the latter's printed books is provided for the first...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hobson, Anthony, 1921-2014 (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Two Renaissance Book Collectors
  • 1. Grolier: the early years
  • 2. Grolier in Italy 1515-1521
  • 3.
  • Grolier in France
  • 4. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
  • 5. Venetian sixteenth-century bookbinders
  • Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Library of Printed Books
  • Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's library of printed books
  • Index of printers and publishers
  • Index of editors, commentators and translators
  • Index of plaquette bindings. App. 1. Grolier's bindings classified by workshop
  • App. 2. Grolier's petition to Francis I
  • App. 3. Anne Briconnet's coins and medals
  • App. 4. The Venetian catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Greek manuscripts
  • App. 5. Bindings by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo)
  • App. 6. Andronicus Nucius's power of attorney
  • App. 7. Bindings by the Cicero Binder
  • App. 8. Bindings by the Fugger Binder
  • App. 9. Venetian bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk
  • App. 10. Bindings by the Agnese Binder (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?)
  • App. 11. Bindings by the Emblematic Binder