D.XXI.
[Blank leaf with anchor on verso].
Quarto. Sign. *, **, a-k^8, l^4, m-z, A-G^8, H^{10}. 16 unnumbered
preliminary leaves, containing preface by Aldus addressed to Andrea
Navagero and alphabetical index (the blank last leaf wanting in
this copy); 245 numbered leaves of text and final blank leaf with
anchor. Sign. * and ** have eight leaves each, not ten as stated in
the register on p. 245. Italic letter, 39 lines to the page, three-
to seven-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials. The
anchor is of the second, somewhat ungraceful, pattern in use
1519-1524, after which there was for some years a return to the
first form. Renouard, p. 93.
Reprinted, with only the addition of the index, from the 1514 edition of
Aldus. In the preface is found the often quoted inscription placed over
the door of Aldus to discourage the idle visitor: _Quisquis es: rogat te
Aldus etiam: atque etiam: ut, si quid est, quod a se velis: perpaucis
agas_, etc. The edition of 1533, with the imprint _in aedibus haeredum
Aldi Manutii Romani & Andreae Asulani Soceri_ and a short preface by
Paulus Manutius (it was his first book as director of the press) is also
essentially unchanged, but his edition of 1546, in octavo, was
thoroughly revised in text and accompanied by a folio volume of variorum
commentaries.
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