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RIVERSIDE ALDINE SERIES. 



THE books printed by Aldus Manutius, 

 at the close of the fifteenth and begin- 

 ning of the sixteenth century, have ever 

 since been regarded as models of elegance, 

 as regards the form of type and proportion 

 of page ; and when Pickering, in the middle 

 of this century, produced books which are 

 recognized as the most graceful examples of 

 English typographic art, he followed very 

 closely the style formed by Aldus, adopting 

 his symbol of an anchor entwined by a dol- 

 phin. 



Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 

 the publishers of this American series, aim 

 to give the best which the printer's art in 

 America can produce ; and they have ven- 

 tured to call the series by a name which in- 

 dicates that it is an American variation of 

 the well-known English style. 



Representative works by those American 

 authors who are at once of established repu- 



