Renaissance Book Collecting - Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings

This 1999 book studies and compares the famous sixteenth-century libraries of Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Abbreviations; 1. Grolier: the early years; 2. Grolier in Italy 1515-21; 3. Grolier in France; 4. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; 5. Venetian sixteenth-century bookbinders; Catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's library of printed books; Index of printers and publishers; Index of editors, commentators and translators; Index of plaquette bindings; Appendices: 1. Grolier's bindings classified by workshop; 2. Grolier's petition to Francis I; 3. Anne Briçonnet's coins and medals; 4. The Venetian catalogue of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's Greek manuscripts; 5. Bindings by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo); 6. Andronicus Nucius's power of attorney; 7. Bindings by the Cicero Binder; 8. Bindings by the Fugger Binder; 9. Venetian Bindings by Anthoni Lodewijk; 10. Bindings by the Agnese Binder (Bartolomeo di Giovanni da Fino?); 11. Bindings by the Emblematic Binder; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 1999 book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a larger and more scholarly collection; a full catalogue is provided for the first time. Contains ninety-one half-tones of original bookbindings, several thematic indexes, eleven appendices and a bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Hobson, Sr Johnson, Sr Lawrence Johnson, Sr. Johnson, Sr. Lawrence Johnson
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.1999
• EAN: 9780521651295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65129-5
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 297 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 980 g
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Paper Ephemera, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Library and information sciences / Museology