Renaissance Book Collecting Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings

"Overall, Hobson's 1991 Lyell Lectures, admirably rewritten, elegantly produced and well illustrated with 87 plates, deserve nothing but gratitude. Intellectual, personal, commercial and other interrelations are handled with a prodigious command of closely knit detail. The treatment of Grolier, the first full one for almost a century, is an immense advance in depth and breadth on its predecessors; it is supplemented by a revision of the late H. M. Nixon's catalogue of Grolier bindings, arranged by workshop. Hurtado de Mendoza gets his due, for the first time, in a perceptive and comprehensive general essay, supported by the first catalogue of printed books surviving from his collection and a transcript of the Venetian catalogue of his Greek manuscripts.....[This is] a satisfying piece of high-level cultural and intellectual history."Johnson, Rodney Lee, Sr. is the author of 'Renaissance Book Collecting Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings' with ISBN 9780521651295 and ISBN 0521651298.