Aldine Editions, works which proceeded from the press of the Manutii (Aldus the Elder, Paulus, and Aldus the Younger), a celebrated family of printers in Venice during the 15th and 10th centuries. (See Manutius.) The Aldine editions comprise the ancient classics, and the works of Petrarch, Boccaccio, Dante, and others. The editions of the senior Aldus, who founded the business in 1490, are the most esteemed. Spurious works with the imprint of the Aldi are by no means uncommon, as they were counterfeited even in their own time, and very extensively at later periods. The great perfection which has been attained in the art of printing, and the attention which has been given, especially during the present century, to the reprint of the classics, have considerably diminished the real value of the Aldine editions, although rare specimens are still much sought for by collectors. The library of the late archduke of Tuscany contains, it is believed, the most perfect collection of Aldine works; but they are met with in most of the great libraries, as the Bodleian at Oxford, the national library at Paris, and the British museum.

A. A. Renouard made a complete collection and published a catalogue of them in his Annates de V imprimerie des Aides (Paris, 1803 and 1834).