Product Description: One of the treasures of The New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, The Medici Aesop is a fifteenth-century Florentine manuscript of Aesop’s fables, traced to the library of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s son Piero and illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings—among the loveliest in any Renaissance work...read more

Product Description: Before dust jackets wrapped every hardcover behind a shield of paper, a book's binding was its only advertisement, and the shelves of bibliophiles were lined with staid leather-bound tomes. Then came the Art Deco designs of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler, who transformed bookbinding into a medium of playful and dazzling experimentation and craftsmanship...read more

Product Description: Publisher: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Los Angeles : University Research Library, Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press Publication date: 1995 Subjects: Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515 Manuzio family Printing Notes: This is an OCR reprint...read more

Product Description: Publisher: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library ; Los Angeles : University Research Library, Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press Publication date: 1995 Subjects: Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515 Manuzio family Printing Notes: This is an OCR reprint...read more