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Winner of the freshman managerial competition was Aldus Higgins Chapin '52 of New York City and Apley Court. He will be assisted next year by James Thomas Stewart '52 of Maplewood, New Jersey and Thayer Hall...
...display on the first floor of Widener, are the first draft of Keat's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," a presentation copy of the Pope "Iliad," dated 1705, with the author's name inscribed, and several early sixteenth century editions of Greek drama from the presses of Aldus Minutius in Geneva...
...printed in Venice in 1490 and edited by Philomusus, another Venetian edition dated 1498, one edited by John Reinhard in Strassburg of the same vintage, and Ascensius version of the "Ars Poetica," printed in paris in 1500. Also on display are two illuminated copies of the "Works," printed by Aldus of Venice...
Copperplate engravings as well as woodcuts were used as illustrations in printed books. Several such books are shown. Pascal, "Henrici II ... Elogium" contains an engraved portrait by Delanne, and Aldus, "Vita di Cosimo de'Medici", Bologna, 1586, is illustrated with engravings by Carracci...
...whole group is a product of the Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...