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DARES PHRYGIUS (attributed to) -- De excidio troie, cum figuris. Paris: Nicolas du Pré for Pierre Gaudoul, 7 August 1520.
4° (194 x 132 mm). Printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut Gaudoul device depicting the Judgement of Paris, 9 other ¾-page woodcuts depicting the 9 protagonists in the tale, woodcut criblé initials. (Single marginal wormhole, title lightly spotted and with small tear.) Burgundy morocco janseniste, gilt edges, by Riviere and Son. Provenance: William Harrison Woodward (bookplate) -- Halsted B. Vander Poel (1911-2003; purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2 August 1949, $200, with their collation note at rear).
The striking woodcuts of Hector, Achilles, Priam, Agamemnon, Anchises, Menelaus, Aeneas, Ulysses and Polydorus perhaps show Spanish influence (Fairfax Murray). Anchises, curiously, wears spectacles. Considered to be the work of a Trojan priest but later attributed to a 12th-century English poet, the De excidio Troiae historia both enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as one of the few histories relating the fall of Troy and exerted significant influence as a source, direct or indirect, for Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Guido delle Colonna, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. Brunet II, 521; Davies, Murray French, 113: 'very rare'; not in Adams or Mortimer, French.
4° (194 x 132 mm). Printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut Gaudoul device depicting the Judgement of Paris, 9 other ¾-page woodcuts depicting the 9 protagonists in the tale, woodcut criblé initials. (Single marginal wormhole, title lightly spotted and with small tear.) Burgundy morocco janseniste, gilt edges, by Riviere and Son. Provenance: William Harrison Woodward (bookplate) -- Halsted B. Vander Poel (1911-2003; purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2 August 1949, $200, with their collation note at rear).
The striking woodcuts of Hector, Achilles, Priam, Agamemnon, Anchises, Menelaus, Aeneas, Ulysses and Polydorus perhaps show Spanish influence (Fairfax Murray). Anchises, curiously, wears spectacles. Considered to be the work of a Trojan priest but later attributed to a 12
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