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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblemata. Commentary by Claude Mignault. Lyons: Heirs of Guillaume Rouill, 1614.
8o (176 x 108 mm). 2 parts in one, the commentary with separate title. General title printed in red and black, 197 woodcut emblems plus 14 woodcuts of trees, woodcut printer's device, initials and tailpiece ornaments. (Light foxing, inkstains in quire Mm affecting two woodcuts, some dampstaining at end.) Contemporary French calf gilt, sides panelled with solid and pointill fillet borders and a floral roll enclosing center- and cornerpiece design composed of leafy sprays and flower blossom tools, oval cartouche at center with the arms of ?Franois de Faudoas? d'Averton, Comte de Blin (Guigard II, 27; Olivier 659), flat spine similarly panelled and gilt, board edges gilt, gilt edges (short tear to lower joint, minor wear at head of spine). Provenance: ?Franois de Faudoas d'Averton, comte de Blin, supralibros and prize inscription [see below]; Pierre Ppin, given as a prize for first place in Greek oratory (1622 inscription, with wax seal, signed Blasius Chaudesolle, prefect of the Jesuit College of La Flche); Thomas Powell (19th-century bookplate).
FINE COPY of a late edition of the first and most popular emblem book. Landwehr records close to 80 editions published in France from 1534 to 1616, of which nearly two dozen from the Rouill press. Most of the woodcuts are from the set by Pierre Eskrich (= Pierre Vase), commissioned by Guillaume Rouill in 1548 in imitation of the series designed by Bernard Salomon for Jean de Tournes.
Guigard attributed the arms of the binding to Franois de Faudoas d'Averton, comte de Blin (dubbed chevalier du Saint-Esprit on January 3, 1598), governor of Ham, Paris and Calais, but Olivier disagreed with this attribution, describing the comte de Blin's arms as different, and attributing these arms simply to a member of the d'Averton family. The owner of this binding was certainly a Comte de Blin, though possibly a later one: the inscription of the prefect of the Jesuit College of La Flche (who may have taught Descartes a few years earlier), awarding this volume to the pupil Pierre Ppin, cites the "generosity and munificence of the Comte de Blin".
BM/STC French 17 A-239; Duplessis Les emblmes d'Alciat (Paris 1884), 73; Landwehr Romanic 94.
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FINE COPY of a late edition of the first and most popular emblem book. Landwehr records close to 80 editions published in France from 1534 to 1616, of which nearly two dozen from the Rouill press. Most of the woodcuts are from the set by Pierre Eskrich (= Pierre Vase), commissioned by Guillaume Rouill in 1548 in imitation of the series designed by Bernard Salomon for Jean de Tournes.
Guigard attributed the arms of the binding to Franois de Faudoas d'Averton, comte de Blin (dubbed chevalier du Saint-Esprit on January 3, 1598), governor of Ham, Paris and Calais, but Olivier disagreed with this attribution, describing the comte de Blin's arms as different, and attributing these arms simply to a member of the d'Averton family. The owner of this binding was certainly a Comte de Blin, though possibly a later one: the inscription of the prefect of the Jesuit College of La Flche (who may have taught Descartes a few years earlier), awarding this volume to the pupil Pierre Ppin, cites the "generosity and munificence of the Comte de Blin".
BM/STC French 17 A-239; Duplessis Les emblmes d'Alciat (Paris 1884), 73; Landwehr Romanic 94.