Aldo Manuzio, Orthographiae ratio, Venice, Aldus, 1561, later vellum

Aldo Manuzio (the younger)

Orthographiae ratio, ab Aldo Manutio, Pauli f. collecta. Venice: Aldus [Paolo Manuzio], 1561

8vo (150 x 93mm.), woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), modern limp vellum, occasional light foxing, last few quires stained at foot

FIRST EDITION of Aldus the younger's treatise on spelling and grammar, including a section on punctuation in which he gives an explanation of Aldus the elder's introduction of the semicolon in his books.

LITERATURE

Edit16 28073; Renouard 182/6; UCLA 642