Counterfeit Aldines and italic-letter editions printed in Lyons 1502-1510: early diffusion in Italy and France.

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: Kemp, Will | Copyright information
From their initial appearance in April 1501, it is clear that Aldus's italic-letter, octavo editions were an immediate success among the educated, the amateurs of bonae literae. In spite of the existence of various privileges obtained from the Venetian Republic and from the papacy in Rome covering both the editions and their new cancellaresca-style type, at least three printing houses had italic type and were printing the very same, or the same sort of octavo editions of classical tex...

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