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HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Paris: Thielman Kerver the Younger, 1550.
Geoffroy Tory’s miniature masterpieces.
8vo (155 x 98mm). 172 leaves. Printed in black and red. Eighteen woodcut vignettes, 9 of which by Geoffroy Tory, the remainder by him or an associate, the title and each page within a variety of woodcut borders containing flowers, fruits, animals and insects, many of the lower panels incorporating putti, or the crowned initials or emblems of François I and Louise of Savoy; Kerver's device on the title (small repairs in the margins of some leaves, including wormholes in the first and last few leaves some of these touching the image). Early 20th-century morocco, the spine with raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, edges gilt and gauffred. Provenance: an early reader (some lines crossed out in two leaves) — Martin Breslauer (pencilled note).
The fine woodcuts are from Tory's blocks for the very rare edition of 1529, which Pollard considered an example of Tory's work at its best (Mortimer). Olivier Mallard acquired Tory's establishment by marrying Tory's widow in 1536, and printed an edition from these blocks in 1541. In turn Kerver acquired the blocks upon Mallard's death, and published this edition. All editions are rare: RBH and ABPC record only the Arcana Collection copy of this 1550 edition (sold, Christie’s, 27 October 2010, lot 37); two copies of the 1541 edition (one of which possibly represents another Mallard edition of 1541 with different woodcuts); and two copies of the 1529 edition, one of them heavily defective with just two of the woodcuts. Brunet V, 1662; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 313; cf. Tenschert, Horae, III:135.
Geoffroy Tory’s miniature masterpieces.
8vo (155 x 98mm). 172 leaves. Printed in black and red. Eighteen woodcut vignettes, 9 of which by Geoffroy Tory, the remainder by him or an associate, the title and each page within a variety of woodcut borders containing flowers, fruits, animals and insects, many of the lower panels incorporating putti, or the crowned initials or emblems of François I and Louise of Savoy; Kerver's device on the title (small repairs in the margins of some leaves, including wormholes in the first and last few leaves some of these touching the image). Early 20th-century morocco, the spine with raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, edges gilt and gauffred. Provenance: an early reader (some lines crossed out in two leaves) — Martin Breslauer (pencilled note).
The fine woodcuts are from Tory's blocks for the very rare edition of 1529, which Pollard considered an example of Tory's work at its best (Mortimer). Olivier Mallard acquired Tory's establishment by marrying Tory's widow in 1536, and printed an edition from these blocks in 1541. In turn Kerver acquired the blocks upon Mallard's death, and published this edition. All editions are rare: RBH and ABPC record only the Arcana Collection copy of this 1550 edition (sold, Christie’s, 27 October 2010, lot 37); two copies of the 1541 edition (one of which possibly represents another Mallard edition of 1541 with different woodcuts); and two copies of the 1529 edition, one of them heavily defective with just two of the woodcuts. Brunet V, 1662; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 313; cf. Tenschert, Horae, III:135.
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