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Lancelot du Lac. Volumes I and II only. Paris: Antoine Vérard, 1494 [but c.1502].
2 volumes (of 3), 2° (312 x 215mm). Collation: vol. I a6<\sup> (title, dedication to Charles VIII, contents table), b-z A-G8<\sup> H6<\sup> I4<\sup> (text, I4v colophon); vol. II aa4<\sup> (title, table), bb-zz8<\sup> &&6<\sup> qq4<\sup> (text, -bb1 blank). 248, and 189 leaves (of 189 without the blank). Bâtarde type 12:106B. 45 lines, double column. 19 large woodcut illustrations, including some repeats; large grotesque and smaller decorative woodcut initials. (Dampstaining, this more pronounced in the first and last gatherings of vol. 1 with repaired losses to the first c.10 lines of the last two gatherings, some repairs including to the verso of the first title.) Late 18th-century half sheep (recased with new endpapers, spine and extremities rubbed, sides lightly scuffed). Provenance: Joachim von Furstenberg (partly deleted title inscriptions dated 1599; sold, Sotheby's, 1 July 1994, lot 192).
THE DONAUESCHINGEN COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ROMANCES IN THE ARTHURIAN CYCLE. The second Vérard edition, reprinted from his very rare first edition of 1 July 1494, and only the third edition overall. The first edition was published at Rouen in 1488 by Jean Le Bourgeois. The French prose version of Lancelot of the Lake may be at least partly based on a romance by Walter Map, Henri II's chancellor. It was an ideal text for Vérard's aristocratic market. Copies of either edition are very rare: ABPC records only this one and the Berland copy (sold, Christie's New York, 9 October 2001, lot 416). HC 9850; Proctor 8459; Brunet III, 806; Macfarlane 166.
2 volumes (of 3), 2° (312 x 215mm). Collation: vol. I a6<\sup> (title, dedication to Charles VIII, contents table), b-z A-G8<\sup> H6<\sup> I4<\sup> (text, I4v colophon); vol. II aa4<\sup> (title, table), bb-zz8<\sup> &&6<\sup> qq4<\sup> (text, -bb1 blank). 248, and 189 leaves (of 189 without the blank). Bâtarde type 12:106B. 45 lines, double column. 19 large woodcut illustrations, including some repeats; large grotesque and smaller decorative woodcut initials. (Dampstaining, this more pronounced in the first and last gatherings of vol. 1 with repaired losses to the first c.10 lines of the last two gatherings, some repairs including to the verso of the first title.) Late 18th-century half sheep (recased with new endpapers, spine and extremities rubbed, sides lightly scuffed). Provenance: Joachim von Furstenberg (partly deleted title inscriptions dated 1599; sold, Sotheby's, 1 July 1994, lot 192).
THE DONAUESCHINGEN COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ROMANCES IN THE ARTHURIAN CYCLE. The second Vérard edition, reprinted from his very rare first edition of 1 July 1494, and only the third edition overall. The first edition was published at Rouen in 1488 by Jean Le Bourgeois. The French prose version of Lancelot of the Lake may be at least partly based on a romance by Walter Map, Henri II's chancellor. It was an ideal text for Vérard's aristocratic market. Copies of either edition are very rare: ABPC records only this one and the Berland copy (sold, Christie's New York, 9 October 2001, lot 416). HC 9850; Proctor 8459; Brunet III, 806; Macfarlane 166.
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