Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings

by Anthony Hobson

Book Overview

This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic cabinet of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, the Prince of Bibliophiles, have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable information on Grolier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521126177
• ISBN13: 9780521126175
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.7"