Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, Paris, Renouard, 1834, nineteenth-century three-quarter brown calf over brown marbled boards

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

Third edition.

4to (211 x 128 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Aldo Manuzio, second engraved portrait and eleven facsimile plates on eight leaves, five folding. (Frontispiece and engraved portrait a little foxed.)

binding: Nineteenth-century three-quarter brown calf over brown marbled boards (218 x 134 mm), marbled edges. (Both covers detached, edges worn, adhesive residue from removed bookplate to front pastedown.)

provenance: S.N. Kotova, Saint Petersburg, booksellers' ticket on lower pastedown — Thomas Ewart Marston (1904-1984), armorial ex libris. acquisition: Purchased from Ken Nesheim, Orange, CT, 1988. references: Lamberto Donati, "Bibliografia Aldina" in La Bibliofilía 52 (1950), pp. 188-204 no. 48