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edition, no copy of which appears to be known. The work was reprinted by
Henry Smythe, London, 1546.

Richard Pynson, a Norman by birth, established himself in London about
1490, taking over, as there is good reason to believe, the business of
Machlinia, a printer of law books, for which his knowledge of
Norman-French especially fitted him. In 1508 he was made Printer to the
King and in that year also he printed two books in roman type, the first
use of that character in England. He is known to have printed at least
371 books, a much smaller number than de Worde, but as a rule larger and
more important books. He is regarded as the best English printer of his
time and the _Liber Intrationum_ is one of his finest books.

Bound in red velvet, with silk linings and gilt edges. Leaf 12-3/4 x
9-1/4 in.

From the Syston Park library, with the book-plate and monogram of Sir
John Henry Thorold.

27. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia Graece. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae
soceri, 1509.

TITLE: PLVTARCHI OPVSCVLA. LXXXXII. Index Moralium omnium, & eorum quae
in ipsis tractantur, habetur in hoc quaternione. Numerus autem
Arithmeticus remittit lectorem ad semipagina_m_, ubi tractantur
singula. [Aldine anchor]. _P. 1050_, COLOPHON: Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi
& Andreae Asulani Soceri. mense Martio. M. D. IX. [Blank leaf with anchor
on verso.]

Quarto. Sign. *, a-z, &, aa-zz, aaa-sss^8, ttt^6. 8 unnumbered
preliminary leaves (sign * not included in register on p. 1050)
containing title, dedicatory epistle of Aldus to Jacopo Antiquario,
index, four couplets of Jerome Aleander, preface of the editor
Demetrius Doukas (all except title and dedication in Greek); 1050
numbered pages of Greek text, final blank leaf with anchor on
verso. The type is Aldus's fourth Greek font, 46 lines to the page,
five- to eight-line spaces left for initials. The _semipagina_ (the
equivalent of our _page_) to which the index directs the reader,
shows that _pagina_ still had its older meaning _leaf_, and
incidentally that the numbering of the page instead of the leaf was
an innovation. The anchor and dolphin device, the symbol of the
motto _Festina lente_, which first appeared in the Dante of 1502,
is here in its first form, but of the larger size suitable for
folios and enclosed in double lines, on the title-page without
name, but on the last leaf with the addition ALDVS.MA.