ALDUS, ALDINE
The great Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (Aldo Manuzio,
1452–1515) initiated the printing of the Greek classics and the series of
pocket-classics, for which he is chiefly famous. His device of a
dolphin and anchor was widely imitated, not least by William
Pickering in the 19th century, together with the title Aldine Classics for
his similar series of the major authors of English literature.
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