What’s better than one early book from the
#Badius press with its distinctive titlepage? …an earlier
#Aldine casually alongside it!
Two giants of the printing press bound together available now📚
@SCA_MULibrary RB 367/A, Paris, 1520
RB 367/B, Venice, 1516
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ALT Distinctive decorative title page from the printing press of Josse Badius - depicting a working printer’s workshop. The press is labelled ‘Prelum Ascensianum’ the name of the workshop in Paris
ALT The famous printer’s device used by the Aldine Press begun by Aldus Manutius in Venice 1494 - depicting the famous dolphin wrapped around an anchor