Renaissance Book Collecting
Subtitle: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521651295
Subjects: Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter; Language Arts & Disciplines; Books & Reading; Bibliographies & Indexes; Publishing; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego,; Reference; Europe; Europe, Western; Books; Book collecting--Europe, Western--History--16th century; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes; 16th century; Book Collecting; Bookbinders; Bookbinding, Renaissance; Grolier, Jean,; History; Italy; Venice; 1479-1565
First sentence: IT IS PROBABLE that there has been no period since Grolier's death when the books of his final library have not been valued by other collectors.
Description: "This book studies, and compares, two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a catalogue of the latter's printed books is provided for the first time. Both men were greatly influenced by experience of Italy."--BOOK JACKET.

"Grolier has been called 'the Prince of Bibliophiles'; the books he commissioned have long been famous. This is the first full account of his life for ninety years. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet, historian, Greek scholar and Arabist. He served as the Emperor's Ambassador in Venice (1540-6), to the Council of Trent (1545-6), and to the Pope (1547-52). In Venice he set out to form for Spain a collection of Greek manuscripts to rival that being formed for France by Francis I's agents."--BOOK JACKET.