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    THE LAST PUBLISHER OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS.

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    1014 The Publishers' Circular Sept . 1 , 1888 I

    The Last Publisher Of Manuscript Books.

    THE LAST PUBLISHER OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS .

    Before the invention of printing the making of a book was a work of high art . The scribe or ist wrote the text ; the painter illuminated

    its copy pages with golc ( . and glowing colour on the finest parchment ; and the binder covered it With th tt e finest ¦ velvet or ¦ morocco ¦ ¦ i fw f f ¦ ¦ rom the ¦ Levantor

    embro ^ . pr ^^^^ m - ^/^ r ^^ " ^^^ ^^ 1 ^^^ idery ^^^ ^^ ™ , ^^ " ^ ^^^ or ^^ wroug ^ f ~ ^^ h t —^ *^^ beaut ~^» *~ - ^* — if u l cover ~~ ~ - ^^^ ^ " ^^^ " s ^ ~^™~ in » ^^ f ~ - ^^ - ^ woo ^^ ff *< f ^» , ^ . a ^ w d ^^^ v or inlaid ivory , embossed with gold , and

    frequently set with gems ; the goldsmith chiselled delicate devices in niello on silver for clasps . Thus the painter , the sculptor , and the

    goldworker all combined to make the precious book a work of art . Of course such books were only to be obtained by wealthy princes . Borso ct'Este

    paid 40 ducats for a ' Josephus' and a ' Quint us Curtius , ' while his large two-volume Bible cost

    him 1 , 375 sequins ( about £ 680 ) . In reading * Vespasiano ' s Lives / one forms a ! very good idea of the business of a bookseller and

    publisher v ^ ^ before 4 A the j ¦» invention >< of «¦ printing a . at . Ves i i - X > asiano di Bisticchi ( born A . D . 1421 ) was an author and bookseller in Florence . As an author

    , ; his works go far to redeem the character of the ' : « f age ^ V ^^^^ BJBt " ^^ , H for ^ - ^— ^^^ ^^^ ¦ in —^ his - ' Vite — ¦ - ^ ^»^ delli - ^ r ^ - ^^ ^^ w ~ ^^ Uomini ^^ q ^ v - ^ r v ^^^^ b ^^ M ^ fl ^ h ^^ K tP ^ Illusfcri m *^ ^^ ^^ ^* Wk ¦ i I K ^ ^^ ^^ ' and ^^ V Ifri ^ b ^ - ^ fc . 1 ^ dft _ ^ B ^^ k A ^ V A ^ V ^ B "V ^^^^^^ . ^ u ¦ ¦ A am ^ . ^ K a ^^ ^

    ; his * Ricordi delle Donne State in Italia degne , ' i he has shown all that those brilliant and corrupt

    times contained of the pure and good . His services to literature were immense ; he assisted to form the three most fanious libraries in

    Italythe the Tjaurentian JLaurentian in in Florence Florence , that that or of thp the Vatican Vatican in in Rome , and the library of Federi , go , Duke of Urbino , which is now , since its purchase by Pope

    Alexi ander VII ., incorporated with that of the Vatican . Vespasiano gives a detailed list of the works he ! obtained for the Duke of Urbino , which comprised

    all the known classics , the Fathers , books on astrology , science , medicine , art , music , and all the ' ^" ^«— - ^ - ^ Italian — - ^ — ™ - ' ° ' — " ^ — ¦ ' ¦ authors —~ — - ¦ - - — ' ' ^ " - " ^^ " " - ™~ and ' ^ " ^ ^^^» ~ mr ^^ poets v ^^ ~^*^ ^^ tW ^^ ^ m * . ^ In ^ . ta « ^ h ^ ik this ^ 1 ^ d ^ d ^ ^ h ^*^ magnificent < . fc ^ i ^ ^ . 1 ^^^ ^^ ^^ 4 b ^ h ^ ^ |^ ^^^ " JK . M ^ k ^

    library , which cost 30 , 000 ducats , every author was found complete , not a word of his known writings —¦ - ¦ h was ¦ — -- missing -- * ¦ was h written

    on w v . — - - par — - - ^ - c hment — - — - — with " — — ' —m ^— a m ^ a ^ ; j pen every ^^^ , - ^^ •» and page m *^ ^^™* illuminat wn ^ ^*^ w Yr w «^ ed w w ^ , and ^ ^* ^^ * every book was properly bound . Vespasiano says there ~ " ~ " ~ —¦— ~— was ' » — — ' - »~ not — one — — .-- -v- written w v ^^ ^^ -m ^ ^ v _ - ^^ ^^ m ^~ of - ^ rf- ^^^ which v ^ ^^ —m m * - ^^ ^ h . ^ k we w » ^^^^ ^ sarehbe l «* ^/^ s w ^^ »^ ^^ ^^

    vergognato ( he could have been ashamed ) . The great Bible , illuminated throughout , was bound in gold brocade , and had rich silver clamps and

    clasps . All the editions of the Greek and Latin Fathers , and other classics , were bound in crimson velvet with silver clasps . Vespasiano prides

    himself on the completeness of his work . He says he went to England for the catalogue of the Oxford libraryand also obtained catalogues of the

    libraries , of Italian cities , but in all he found

    \ that they only , possessed fragmentary writings ,

    . . ___ =-and In very few cases Iwwl they ifae entire works II of an author . ' j

    The bibliophile Niccolo Niccoli , having spent a ^¦^^ pr long ^^ b - ^ v ^^^^^ ^ h ^ k life ^ " ^ ^^~ -v and ^^ v ^^^^ k ^^ ^^ p- ^^ all ^ ^ p ^^^ mm his ^^^^ ^^«^^ patrimony w ^ pr' ^ p >^ p ^ v ^^ b > ^^^^ b ^^^^^ ^ p ^^^ v m in ~^^ ^ v ^^ v collecting ^ p ^ ^^^ ^^ b ^|^^^^ ^^^ ¦ ¦ a ¦ J j p

    books and MSS ., left them , at his death , toOosimo de' Medici to found a public library . Cosimo

    built the fine pillared halj , in the convent of San Marco , and then conceived the idea of filling it , so as to form a worthy public library , of which

    the legacy of Niccoli should be the nucleus . Naturally , he had recourse to the great bookseller and sending for Vespasiano asked him how he ,

    advised him to furnish his bookcases . * You could not buy- books—it would be impossible to find enough' said Vespasiano .

    * The " n what am I to , do ? ' asked Cosimo . ' Have them written , ' replied the bookseller .

    On which Cosirno gave him the commission , and the bookseller forthwith employed forty-five scribes and illuminatorsfurnishing 200 volumes

    , in twenty-two months ; and ' so pleased was Cosimo with the books that he employed Vespasiano and his scribes to supply the illuminated

    psalters and missals for the new church of the Convent of San Marco . Vespasiano was the last of his professionfor

    even while he worked , Gutenberg , in Mainz , , had , brought printing to perfection , had discarded his wooden bloc r ks and used leaden tand II while

    V * ^ F ^ ~^^ * P *^ V ^ T ^*^ Fh V ^^ ^^ ^^ ^«^™ i ^ " "^ ' . F W 4 Bb ^^ - ^ iW ^ t ^» r I r ^^^ ^ . r ^ dF » ^ F' ^ ^ f ^ iF ^ ^*^ ^ H ^ p * ^^ y W pes 1 ^*^ ^ " ^ * ¦ . * ; ^ ¦ ^^^^ ^*» , ^ B ^ ^ F ^> i ^ ^ fcrf ^ ^^ Vespasiano illuminated the Duke of Montefeltro ' s Bible , Grutenberg and Fust , in 1450 , printed their

    Mazann Bible . —Leader Scott , in Boolttnart .

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    Messrs . Bell & Co . Classics :

    The Dramas of Sophocles , rendered into English Verse , Dramatic and Lyric , by Sir George ToungBart . M . A .

    , , Sabrinae Corolla in Hortulis Regise Scholar Salopiensis contexuerunt tres Viri Floribus Xiegendis , new edit .

    Easy Translations of Nepos , Caasar , Cicero , Livy , & c , for Ketranslation into Latin , with Notes by T . CollinsM . A .

    W ~~ r J M ^ ka ^ ~^^ - * - *¦ ^ F > ^ ^ ¦¦ ^^ i ^ ^ - , H rf ^» Mm * W » -rfVM > V Faciliora , an Elementary Latin Book on a New"Princi ¦ ¦ ™— ¦ ' —~* p M le ^^ , by J the ^^ »^ - »^ - ^^ Rev I MF' - ^ mr ~ . W J - ^^ . ^ L ^^^ M » . HJ Seager p- ^^ 'MF' WV « K ^¦ F' p « , «¦ M ^ 'Mb . M 1 BMH A ^ M > h . V

    Key to Latin Examination Papers , by A . M . M . btedman . M . A . Wadham College , Oxford . Greek Testament SelectionsSecond and

    Revised Edition , with Notes and , Vocabulary by j A . M . M Stedman , M . A . New Volumes of Cambridge Texts with Notes

    ( the Texts are for the most part those of the Libliotheca Classica ; the Notes are in Eng-lish at the end of the volumes ) :

    ^ Kschylus , the Choephoroe , edited by F . A . Paley , M . A ., LL . D . Virgilthe BucolicsGeorgicsand Jl ^ neid \

    ¦¦ . * # » V ~ K * A « , \ * - * - \_ r J * - ^ r % J % . -S . S V ^ J * -a . ^ uir-K _^ , * X _/ 1 ^_>> ' w- * La . A VaK-7 , « «^ V A . A VvlL . A . M ^ *¦ - * ^ - ^ ¦ * ^^* , f Professor Conington ' s edition abridged , by Professors Nettleship and Wagner and

    Rev . J . G . Shephard , D . C . L ., in 9 vols . Xenophon , the Anabasis , Macmichael's edition — » - — " ~ , v revised " ^ ¦ ' ' ^ - ^ " ^ ' . " ^^^^ m b r- * r y j J — — . ^ ^ E ^ - «^^ . ^ Melhuish « .. j—v ^^^ ~ n _|— ^^ ^*« ik ' ¦ r ^ ^ - * ¦ « h ' ^^ - ^ , « M AlaFh . p ^ A fv ^^^ . , V in F™— — —

    4 vols . Xenophon , the Hellenics , Book 2 , by the Rev . L . IX DowdallM . A . JB . D J .

    Ovid ¦ ¦ V , — The V ¦ ¦ i V ¦ * V Fasti v - « - *« VW ^^ f «« , tp , revised ^^ ^ M MK , H fJK ^ ^ ^ edition V , by F . A . Paley , M . A ., LL . D ., in 3 vols . Virgilthe JEneid ¦ Book ¦ ¦¦ r i 1 Professor . a ^^

    Coning-* a ^^^ h ^ , 7 ^^ ^ ' " ^ - ^ r ^ ta ^^ ^ F « « p 1 ^ ^^ T ^^^ n , F ^ H ' —^ F' ^^ F *^ « *^ F >« , ^ J . |^^ B *^^ F . V ^ F ^ F ^ ' ^^ F ^ ^ ' ^^^^ Mf . ^ F ^^^^^ ^ F > k ^ ' K ^> fV * . F ^ tfV ^^ Fl ^ K ton ' s edition abridged , with Vocabulary . New Volumes of the Public School Series : Livy , Book XXII ., edited , with Introduction ,

    Notes , and Maps , by Rev . L . D . Dowdall ,

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1888, page 1014, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091888/page/8/