GROL1ER IN THE PRINTING HOUSE OF ALDUS 

 Photogravure from the Painting "by Francois Flameng 



The Printing House of Aldo Manuzio, known to fame as Aldus, became 

 one of the intellectual centres of Europe. It stood near the church of St. 

 Augustine, in Venice, and the Aldine Press was noted for its first editions of 

 Greek, Latin, and Italian classics, many of them adorned with the richest 

 bindings. Jean Grolier, while in Italy from 1510 to 1535 as treasurer and 

 ambassador of Francis I, was a frequent visitor to the Printing House of 

 Aldus, and there, no doubt, talked over some of the bindings of his own 

 design that are regarded as models of the bookbinder's art to this day. Gro- 

 lier's library reached 3,000 volumes, of which 300 are still in existence, and 

 sixty of these are in the National Library at Paris. 



