Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 92
Publishers of to-day, in their issue of cheapeditions, are doing only what was done fourhundred years ago, at a time when printedbooks were new and rare. These early works … THE ALDINE ANCHOR.[Taken from a book printed by Aldus.] were issued by the famous printer of Venice,and his little pocket editions of the Greek,Latin, and Italian classics sold for a sum equalto about fifty cents of our money. You wouldhave to pay a good many times that amountfor one of them now!…
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