My apologies. This message was to say that two copies of the Aldine blue-paper Vergil are known. One is at UCLA, as Janice Matthiesen rightly says, the other is in a small east-coast college library. I no longer have my Aldine notes to hand, but remember that George Fletcher told me of the latter and expect that either he or I or both passed the information onto Gabriel Austin. -- PGN
----- Original Message -----
From: Janice Matthiesen <janicem@library.ucla.edu>
Date: Friday, July 23, 2004 3:23 pm
Subject: Re: Blue-Grey Paper Color
> The copy you describe can be found in the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine
> Collection
> at UCLA.
>
> Janice Matthiesen
> Rare Book Cataloger
> Young Research Library
> UCLA
>
>
>
> --On Friday, July 23, 2004 1:16 PM -0700 Sam Gatteño
> <sgatteno@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> > There was an Aldine Vergil (1514) on blue paper that was sold at
> Lionel> Robinson's sale in 1986. According to the catalogue
> entry, it was the
> > Pembroke copy and the binding was French seventeenth-century
> mottled calf.
> > Best
> > Sam Gatteño
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gabriel Austin" <gabrielaustin@earthlink.net>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 10:52 AM
> > Subject: RE: Blue-Grey Paper Color
> >
> >
> >> But there are some "fancy" editions printed on blue paper. As a
> matter>> of fact, I am still trying to verify the existence of an
> Aldine Virgil
> >> in a Grolier binding printed on papier bleu sold in a Paris
> sale in the
> >> 1930s. [Sorry, my list of G bindings is downstairs & I am too
> relaxed in
> >> the garden on a cool sunny morning].
> >> Gabriel Austin
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
> >> [mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Lieberman
> >> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 8:26 AM
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list
> >> Subject: Re: Blue-Grey Paper Color
> >>
> >> Though there are some variations in quality and color - similar
> papers>> were used in the U.S. especially as wrappers or binding
> material.>>
> >> > I've catalogued numerous French pamphlets and some English
> pamphlets>> (and
> >> > it does always seem to be pamphlets and mostly late 18th century)
> >> printed
> >> > on this "cadet blue" paper as I have seen it listed.
> >> >
> >> > The quality of the paper is not very good.
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
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