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ALDINE PRESS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRESS , the See also:printing See also:office started by Aldus See also:Manutius at the end of the 15th See also:century in See also:Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine See also:editions of the See also:classics of that See also:time. (See MANUTIUS.) The Aldine Press is famous in the See also:history of See also:typography (q.v.), among other things, for the introduction of italics.

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