_ 28 numbered leaves of commentary,
with separate title, anchor both on title and on verso of last
leaf. Text in roman, 25 lines to the page; commentary in italic, 34
lines to the page. Many woodcut diagrams. Both text and commentary
are introduced by a seven-line woodcut initial belonging to a
mythological series found in other books of Paulus of this period,
C picturing Calypso bidding adieu to Ulysses, I, Juno seated on a
car drawn by peacocks. The original italic font of Aldus, the
so-called _Aldino_ type, which appears to have passed into the
possession of the Torresani relatives at about this date, is here
replaced by a new font having a perceptibly larger face, though
only a slightly larger body (20 lines of the new equalling 21 of
the old) and consequently showing less white between the lines.
Renouard, p. 173.
In 1554 the subscription assumed the new form _apud Paulum Manutium Aldi
F._, showing that Paulus had acquired his brothers' rights in the press.
At the same time he returned to the earlier and simpler form of the
anchor with the name _Aldus_, instead of the _Aldi filii_ and the
ornamental border in use since 1546.
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