====== The Genes of Aldo ======


**5 October-19 November 2015**, Waseda University Library (1 Chome-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan)

Organised by Tokyo Bookbinding Club and Waseda University Library 


The exhibition consists of **four major parts**. The first part consists of printed books from the time of the birth of typography to the early Venetian **printing before Aldo Manuzio**. The second part is a group of **publications by Aldo Manuzio himself**, his successors, and their contemporaries who were influenced by Aldo. The third part is a **collection of reliure works** of the first Japanese monograph on Aldo Manuzio, //Aldo Manuzio and the Renaissance literary Regeneration// (Tokyo Bookbinding Club, 2014), **by 24 contemporary eminent bookbinders in Japan**. The fourth part contains some works of an English publisher who inherited the genes of Aldo in the 19th century, and **several bibliographies and catalogues of the exhibitions** on Aldo Manuzio held in Europe and the United States in 1994 and 2015. **Related events**: 

**Gallery Talk** by Prof. Koichi Yukishima, October 6(Tue.) 14:45～15:30, Exhibition Room, 2F Central Library
　

**Bookbinding Workshop** for students of Waseda Univeristy only, in partnership with Tokyo Bookbinding Club:
October 8(Thu.) 14:45～17:00 "16th-century style binding"
October 22(Thu.) 14:45～17:00 "Crossed structure binding"



**Opening hours**: 10:00am - 6:00pm; closed on Sundays and November 6(Fri.), but October 18(Sun.) open till 5:00pm.


**Further information** at http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/exhibition/exhibition_detail-e.html?news_no=543&page_no=1


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