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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3876490, member: 85693"]That is a beautiful litho - there is nothing in color printing compares to a 19th century litho, in my opinion. I only have cigar box labels from that era - I'll have to dig through them and see if I have any with Graeco/Roman themes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, here's a couple more bits from my collection - I was framing these like a maniac about 10 years ago, to the point where I ran out of wall -</p><p><br /></p><p>1519 edition of Cassius Dio - from the Antoninus Pius section, I believe. Printed by Aldus Mantutis this is the first, or one of the first, uses of italic type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024121[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From a 1560 printing of Munster's Cosmography, this shows an Alexander the Great chapter with Porus strolling about on an elephant with a sidesaddle full of troopers (in European Renaissance armor, of course). That is if I'm piecing together the Latin correctly:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024122[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3876490, member: 85693"]That is a beautiful litho - there is nothing in color printing compares to a 19th century litho, in my opinion. I only have cigar box labels from that era - I'll have to dig through them and see if I have any with Graeco/Roman themes. Meanwhile, here's a couple more bits from my collection - I was framing these like a maniac about 10 years ago, to the point where I ran out of wall - 1519 edition of Cassius Dio - from the Antoninus Pius section, I believe. Printed by Aldus Mantutis this is the first, or one of the first, uses of italic type: [ATTACH=full]1024121[/ATTACH] From a 1560 printing of Munster's Cosmography, this shows an Alexander the Great chapter with Porus strolling about on an elephant with a sidesaddle full of troopers (in European Renaissance armor, of course). That is if I'm piecing together the Latin correctly: [ATTACH=full]1024122[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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