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ARISTOPHANES (c. 446 -- c. 385 BC). Comoediae, in Greek. Nine with early glosses, two without. Edited by Sigismund Gelen (1497-1554). Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius the elder, 1547.
Median 2o (335 x 225 mm). Two sizes of Greek type, the text surrounded by commentary. Froben's woodcut device, woodcut headpieces and initials. (A few minor stains.)
PARISIAN BINDING OF C. 1560, PROBABLY BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES: gold-tooled polished brown calf, over pasteboard, panelled sides, multiple fillets, open fleuron (Nixon CdP tool 10) at the angles, azured arabesque plaques at the corners of the innermost panel, circular cartouche in the center lettered with the owner's name, ANTOINE MARLANCHON, around a six-pointed star formed by double delta containing his arms, another open tool (not listed by Nixon) in compartments of the spine, original endpapers, (front joint broken, some scarring to covers, corners slightly worn). Folding cloth box. Provenance: Antoine Marlanchon (binding) -- Princes von Oettingen-Wallerstein (their library largely dispersed by Karl & Faber, Munich, in 1933-35) -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate, Parke-Bernet Galleries 5th March 1951, lot 44) -- Saul Cohn (Parke-Bernet Galleries 18th October 1955, lot 149, to Offenbacher).
The owner of this elegant binding does not appear to be otherwise recorded; yet his name and armorial bearings form a single block, presumably cut for repeated use. The open fleuron tool was already employed in the early 1540s by Jean Picard; his kit passed to the Fontainebleau Binder (Gommar Estienne), and eventually to the Royal binder, Claude (de) Picques, who rather seemed to favor arabesque plaques and lettered cartouches for his clients, such as Jacques de Malenfant, Claude Berbis, Magdelene Sanguin, Marie Thevenier and others (see M.M. Foot, Henry Davis Gift ch. 12). Hoffmann I, 253; Adams A-1715.
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PARISIAN BINDING OF C. 1560, PROBABLY BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES: gold-tooled polished brown calf, over pasteboard, panelled sides, multiple fillets, open fleuron (Nixon CdP tool 10) at the angles, azured arabesque plaques at the corners of the innermost panel, circular cartouche in the center lettered with the owner's name, ANTOINE MARLANCHON, around a six-pointed star formed by double delta containing his arms, another open tool (not listed by Nixon) in compartments of the spine, original endpapers, (front joint broken, some scarring to covers, corners slightly worn). Folding cloth box. Provenance: Antoine Marlanchon (binding) -- Princes von Oettingen-Wallerstein (their library largely dispersed by Karl & Faber, Munich, in 1933-35) -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate, Parke-Bernet Galleries 5
The owner of this elegant binding does not appear to be otherwise recorded; yet his name and armorial bearings form a single block, presumably cut for repeated use. The open fleuron tool was already employed in the early 1540s by Jean Picard; his kit passed to the Fontainebleau Binder (Gommar Estienne), and eventually to the Royal binder, Claude (de) Picques, who rather seemed to favor arabesque plaques and lettered cartouches for his clients, such as Jacques de Malenfant, Claude Berbis, Magdelene Sanguin, Marie Thevenier and others (see M.M. Foot, Henry Davis Gift ch. 12). Hoffmann I, 253; Adams A-1715.