Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1825, nineteenth-century red morocco

Renouard, Antoine-Augustin. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions; par Ant. Aug. Renouard. Seconde édition. Tome premier [part 2:] … Tome deuxième [part 3:] … Tome troisième. Paris, the author, 1825

Second edition.

8vo (221 x 130 mm). Two engraved frontispiece portraits, five folding facsimile plates, four plates with Aldine printer's marks. (Some minor foxing to plates, minor offsetting.)

binding: Nineteenth-century three-quarter red morocco over green moiré patterned boards (227 x 142 mm). (Slightly rubbed.)

provenance: George Granville William Leveson-Gower, 3^rd Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892), Loch Inver House, ex libris and stamp on endleaf — unidentified owner, twentieth-century inscription "T. Jackson". acquisition: Source and date of acquisition unknown. references: UCLA 1186; Lamberto Donati, "Bibliografia Aldina" in La Bibliofilía 52 (1950), pp. 188-204 no. 43