单词 | aldine |
释义 | Aldineadj.n. A. adj. Designating editions of Greek and Latin classics (including many first printed editions, or principes) issued at Venice by Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Manucci, 1450–1515), and his family (c1490–1597). Also: designating the press which produced them, and certain fonts of printing type based on designs used there.The Aldine press is noted for having introduced cursive or italic letters into printed texts, and for producing the classics in pocket-sized books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > edition > [adjective] > specific edition Aldine1654 dauphin1705 delphin1775 princeps1809 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others modern1764 script1782 Caxtonian1811 Porsonian1813 antique type?1817 Aldine1837 Scotch1847 old-face1859 Times1860 old-faced1863 Fell type1883 Fournier1902 monotype1910 Goudy1933 monoline1962 slab serif1970 monospaced1972 1654 C. Wase in tr. Gratius Cynegeticon sig. C8v These latine Titles which will follow according to their places are in the Paris and Aldine Editions. 1722 A. Cooper Ess. Chronol. World 14 All the Copies we have of it, the Complutensian, Aldine, Roman and Alexandrine do not one of them agree with another. 1734 F. Clifton in tr. Hippocrates Upon Air Pref. p. ii The Aldine and Frobenian editions, which are some years older than the others, have indeed avoided this mistake. 1783 New Rev. Apr. 309 The scarcity of the known Mss. of the history of animals..is so great that no new ones seem to have been consulted since the first Aldine edition came out. 1801 W. P. Greswell Mem. Angelus Politianus 122 Bembus..there composed a work in the Latin language:..the first publication, we are informed, which issued from the Aldine press, in literis rotundis. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 353 Aldus... Introduced (in 1501) a new Italic character, called Aldine. 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 449/1 Some Aldine edition, with..the sign of the well-known anchor and dolphin. 1935 W. T. Berry & A. F. Johnson Catal. Specimens Printing Types l The extension of the ascenders makes the 12-point size [of Perpetua] look ‘small’ in comparison with the 12 point of Fournier, Baskerville, and the Aldine Bembo. 1981 Huntington Libr. Q. 44 151 It is beautifully printed in Greek italic type at the Aldine press with the Aldine dolphin-and-anchor pressmark on the title page and last leaf. 2004 M. M. Smith in J. A. A. M. Biemans et al. Boek & letter 177 The pugillary of Lazzaro de' Soardi and the ‘littera galante’: more rivals to the Aldine classical octavo in italics. B. n. An Aldine book or edition; an Aldine font. The device characteristic of Aldine books is a figure of a dolphin on an anchor. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > edition > [noun] > other types of edition critical edition1721 trade edition1819 colonial edition1825 share book1853 stall-edition1854 Aldine1862 library edition1869 Kelmscott1920 cheaps1930 quickie1933 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 101 Old editions of the classics in vellum bindings—Stephenses or Aldines. 1880 A. Lang XXII Ballades in Blue China 24 In rich men's shelves they take their ease—Aldines, Bodonis, Elzevirs! 1924 E. F. Ward Story Northwestern Univ. ii. v. 102 The ‘Aldines’ and the ‘Elzevirs’ are to-day exhibited under glass. 1963 W. W. Parker Henry Stevens of Vermont vi. 101 The British Museum had many of the earliest Aldines in the Grenville library. 2008 H. D. L. Vervliet Palaeotypography French Renaissance I. 111 In 1528–34 Simon de Colines engraved four new Italics: two in chancery style and two Aldines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1654 |
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