Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, Paris, Renouard, 1834, contemporary brown morocco gilt

Renouard, Antoine-Augustin. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs éditions. Par Ant. Aug. Renouard. Troisième edition. Paris: Jules Renouard, 1834

The Powis-Breslauer copy.

Large-Paper copy, one of only 32 printed according to Bigmore and Wyman, of the third edition—described by Breslauer & Folter as "the standard bibliography on the subject and a model of its kind." This edition also includes the Giunta bibliography, Notice sur la famille des Junte et liste sommaire de leurs éditions jusqu'en 1550

4to (263 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Aldo Manuzio, second engraved portrait and eleven facsimile plates on eight leaves, five folding. (Plates a little toned and foxed.)

binding: Contemporary brown morocco gilt (273 x 212 mm), edges gilt. (Rubbed, a small area of loss to head of spine.)

provenance: Edward Clive Herbert, 2^nd Earl Powis (1785-1848), signature "Powis" on upper pastedown, and manuscript marginalia; by descent to George Herbert, 4^th Earl Powis (1862-1952); by descent to Edward Robert Henry Herbert, 5^th Earl Powis (1889-1974); his sale, Sotheby's London, 20-21 March 1967, lot 289; purchased by — H.D. Lyon, London — Bernard H. Breslauer (1918-2004); his sale, Christie's New York, 27-28 June 2005, lot 1288. acquisition: Purchased at Christie's via H.P. Kraus. references: Bernard Breslauer & Roland Folter, Bibliography: Its History and Development, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from April 21 to June 6, 1981 (New York, 1984), no. 115 (Grolier Club’s copy on large paper)