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| CAMPUS a Rare Books In Library BY R. M. KENNEDY Aldine Editions This library is indeed rich in posses sing -seven specimens (one a duplicate) of the work of the celebrated 15th-16th century printers, the family of Aldus (really the name was Manutius). Ours are all folios and, with.the pos sible exception of the first named be low, are in modern covers. The first two, it wil1 be noted, are incunabula They are: 1. Iamblichus De Mysteriis Aegypto rum" (bound in with the writings o! several other ancient philosophers), Ven. ice, 1497. Of this work we have two copies, one of which, in red morocco, may be it the original binding. Some of Aldus' pro ductions, we are told, he bound very beautifully. This book, both in print and cover, merits Renouard's description of a copy that he had inspected: "Premiere cdi'ion, Rare et beau volume." 2. Julii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri": also a compilation, the popular or binder's title of which is "Astronomici Veteres Grasce et Latini," Venice, 1499. This book has illuminated capitals and astronomical drawings. 3. Simplicii Commentaria in octo Aris totelis physicae auscultattionis libros cum ipso Aristotelis textu Gracce. Venice 1526. 4. Simplicii Commentaria in tres lib res Aristotelis de Anima. Venice, 1527. 5. Johannes Grammaticus in libros die Seneratione. Venice, 1527. 6. Omnia Thenistici opera, Venice, I133. Renorard says this is a first edi tie of Themistiuls. For more than a century (1490-1597) the Aldus es:allishment produced at Venice books that, to borrow the ex pression of another, are "remarkable for scholarl' correctness and beauty of typograBhy, and that are now trebly prized for their rarity." Among them are some of the earliest editions of *reek. Latin, and Ita)ian writers. T'he founder of the house was Aldrs Manutius, born ii 1450, died in 1515. A fter his death his three sons carried en :he business. The last of the family to conduct it was a grandson, Aldus lanutius the Younger, who died in 1497. This remarkable printing house issued 9N works, all bearing the well-known insignia of an anchor and a twisted dol phin. This design was adopted from a coin which Erasmus says was sent the irst Aldus by the Renaissance scholar. Rambo (Updike "Printing Types"). All of our copies, i.t may be remarked, hear this stamp. Renouard, in the Preface to his "An sales de l'imprimerie des aIdes, ou His toirs des trois Manuces et (de l'urs edi. tions.' Paris, 1803, says: "Among all those who to the present time have p)rac tised the art of typography, that art in which half-success is as easy as true superiority is rare, the elder Aldus and his son Paul deserve in every wvay to o'ccupyv the first rank. Filled with an enthusiastic admiration for the literary masterpieces of Greece andl Rome, they sacrificed the adlvantages of fame andl fortune and devoted their entire lives to dIrawing the ancient writings from he chaos into which eight centuries of haitrhari sm had plunged them." Aldrs the firs designed nine varicies of~ G'reek and fourteen of Lati letters. 1lie also inventedI the Italic type, first ned by huimi in 1501. . The Venetian 'e'.ate gave him exclusive rights to emptloy it and three successive Popes corfirmed his patent. The Italians them selves called it "Aldino" type. McMAS'1 A thetfic iCorner Sumter and Hamntton St FEATURE Old Slave House Razed on Campus Last Relic of Slavery Removed to Make Room For An other Garage H J. V. NEILSON The au:omobile has pushed andther familiar landmark aside and the red brick walls of another reiic of sla'very are being razed. The little red house in the rear of the Davis-McCutchen residence on the campus is now almost completely demolished to make way for parking space for the descendants of those students who used to make the lives of the dwellers in that lit.le house miserabie by steal+ng "massa's" chickens in the dark watches of the night. Long before the Confederate war the T'his Aldus also first used a small format, as some one has called it, a sort of "lEveryman's Library," cheap popular, pocket editions of the classics, selling them at about two shillings a volume. The rarest, and hence most valued of the Aldine editions are those issued he tween 1490 and 1512. Of these we own, as said, two examples. Tldike tells us that when the founder of this great house lay in state in death, his hooks, which he loved so dearly, were grouped about him-a more beau tiful and appropriate tribute in his case than the customary heaps of flowers. Elzevir Editions The Elzevirs, for several succeeding generation, covering a period of a cen tury and a half, in the 16th and 17th centuries, were the foremost printers of the Netherlands, which had succeeded Venice as the center of fine typographi cal work. Louis, the founder of the house, es tablished himself at Leyden in 1580 and his first book came out in 1583. His five sons, and then his grandsons, carr'ed on the business at Leyden, Utrect aid Amsterdam. 'he most famous of the family were lonaventr.re. son of Louis, and Abraham, a grandson, who in 1625 began publish ing popular, low priced editions, 12 mo., 16 mo., and even as small as 32 mo., ei the Latin, French and Italian classics. In this respect they repeated what Aldus had done a century earlier at Venice, and therefore they scarcely de serve their reputation as pioneers in the product on of cheap, convenient-sized literature. Updike ("Printing Types," 1922) says that these tiny volumes are what the "romantic novelists-who are seldoi'i go:sd biographers, like to call "Priceless 1?lzevirs," though they were then ai,d are now cheap books." Another authority more generously says that these little editions are re nowned for their "unsurpassed elegance of design, clearness and regularity of type and bear.ty of paper." I find that we have two specimens, both folios, of the wvork of the Elzevir;. The title of one is, "Theatrum Geogra phiiae Veteri-s," Leyden, 1618, This 's a curious example of an early geography, the maps adorned wvith drawings (of animals on land and of ships and gro tesue monsters on the seas. The maker, Isaac Elzevir, a so0fl L,otis, the founder, conducted a printing house at Leyden rom 1616 to 1625. The Encycllopedia Brittanica says that none oIf his editions attainedl much fame. Still it is a handsome volume., The title of the other is, "Novus Or bis," by Joanne De Laet of Ant werp printed by the "Elzevirs," (B3onaventure. and Abraham, probably), in 1633. This is also a geographical wvork, describ:ng the Americas. It has on front and back covers the gilt coat of arms of, appar rently, a cardinal, to wvhom, doubtless, i' onice belonged. 'ER, Inc. STORIES - little house made of red brick to match the residence in front of it, was built. Many generations of negro mammies clad in gaudy reds and blues and smoking clay pipes, have reared liiltie black boys and girls who played about black iron washpots. Many a grayhaired old Negro man sat upon the steps of the iit le house and mended fishing tackle or sharpened hoes. The big house has seen many changes. Families have moved and new ones have come in. Each little change however, has been smoothed over by time and green ivy which clung to both buildings. How evcr,three years ago, the big house was covered wi h stucco and little red house was left uncovered and grotesque. The university campus is being laid out. The little house was in the way. The descendendan's of the men whose socks were darned and whose clothes were washed by the residents in the little house hardly knew that it stood there. Perhaps a few stood by for a few mo ments to watch the workmen as they pulled -he little structure down, then thef quietly went, thinking, if any went so far, that their s- ripdown would have more parking room now. TYPING OF A.M. THESES SOLICITED Double Space (the kind required) 1Sc a page.-Arrdess Miss Mary N. Mills, 1323 Pendleton Street Usc Col on o brin IN OUR hall, there The Head Man. find it in any rooir you'll ever be offer if you ask me. Wha Fragrant and invi Comforting as a per and long-burning, n< up and light up. Yoi you smoke P. A. TI smokers have placed 1bRINI5I -no other O) 1926, R. 3. 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