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DES PERIERS, BONAVENTURE. Les Nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis. Lyons: Robert Granjon 1558. Small 4to, 186 x 124 mm. (7 5/16 x 4 7/8 in.), dark blue morocco, covers with double gilt panels, spine richly gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges marbled and gilt, by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, corners and head and tail of spine lightly scuffed, small repair to *3 catching 2 letters, marginal repair to s4, washed and pressed with occasional smudging or darkening, faint marginal staining to a few leaves. FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN GRANJON'S "CIVILITÉ" TYPE, woodcut printer's device (Baudrier no. 3) on title, one calligraphic tail-piece ornament.
Robert Granjon, a Parisian printer and typecutter living in Lyons, was inspired by the success of the Aldine italic to design his own uniquely French type, based on French Renaissance cursive script. Designated as "lettre françoise d'art de main" in the ten-year privilege, dated 26 December 1557, which granted him exclusive control over its use (fol. *2), the type came to be known as "civilité" type following its use in two 1559 children's civility books. It first appeared in Granjon's 1557 edition of a French translation of Ringhieri's Dialogue de la vie et de la mort, and was used in a number of works from his press, principally of French poetry and moral instruction, as well as by other printers, in Lyons, Paris and the Netherlands, either in copies or in fonts supplied by Granjon. Brunet II, 642 ("édition fort rare"); Rothschild II, 1696; Tchemerzine II, p. 858.
Provenance: Early annotation on *3v (washed, illegible) -- Robert Samuel Turner, morocco bookplate (sale, Paris, 12-16 March 1878, lot 499).
Robert Granjon, a Parisian printer and typecutter living in Lyons, was inspired by the success of the Aldine italic to design his own uniquely French type, based on French Renaissance cursive script. Designated as "lettre françoise d'art de main" in the ten-year privilege, dated 26 December 1557, which granted him exclusive control over its use (fol. *2), the type came to be known as "civilité" type following its use in two 1559 children's civility books. It first appeared in Granjon's 1557 edition of a French translation of Ringhieri's Dialogue de la vie et de la mort, and was used in a number of works from his press, principally of French poetry and moral instruction, as well as by other printers, in Lyons, Paris and the Netherlands, either in copies or in fonts supplied by Granjon. Brunet II, 642 ("édition fort rare"); Rothschild II, 1696; Tchemerzine II, p. 858.
Provenance: Early annotation on *3v (washed, illegible) -- Robert Samuel Turner, morocco bookplate (sale, Paris, 12-16 March 1878, lot 499).