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GRINGORE, PIERRE. Notables enseignemens, adages et proverbes... Nouuellement reueuz et corrigez Auecque plusieurs autres adioustez oultre la precedente Impression. Paris: (Nicolas Couteau for) Galliot Du Pré (January 1528). 8vo, 160 x 101mm. (6 5/16 x 4 in.), dark blue morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, gilt-and blind-tooled floral tools at corners, spine similarly panelled, edges marbled and gilt, by SIMIER, extremities lightly scuffed, repaired marginal tear to J5 and J6, some light foxing, one or two small stains, washed and pressed. Collation: A-P8 Q6. 126 leaves. Bâtarde type, title printed in red and black, large woodcut of the author presenting his book to François I on A2v, printer's woodcut "galée" device on verso of last leaf, small woodcut initials.
Second edition, more complete than the first, which preceded it by a few months, of this collection of popular proverbs and sayings rendered in octosyllabic quatrains by the prolific Gringore, a Normand who served as herald to the Duc de Lorraine. The edition was shared by Du Pré, Nicolas Couteau, and François Regnault. Brunet II, 1753; Moreau III, 1778; Tchemerzine III, 630a.
Provenance: Sixteenth-century inscription on title (comments on the author and text), numerous margainalia (many cropped) in a sixteenth-century hand -- Guyon de Sardrere, seventeenth-century signature on title and colophon -- Nicolas Yemeniz, bookplate (sale, Paris, 9-31 May 1867) -- Unidentified bookplate, with device "Cum consommaverit homo, tunc incipiet" -- (from Lardanchet, 1967, 60/96).
Second edition, more complete than the first, which preceded it by a few months, of this collection of popular proverbs and sayings rendered in octosyllabic quatrains by the prolific Gringore, a Normand who served as herald to the Duc de Lorraine. The edition was shared by Du Pré, Nicolas Couteau, and François Regnault. Brunet II, 1753; Moreau III, 1778; Tchemerzine III, 630a.
Provenance: Sixteenth-century inscription on title (comments on the author and text), numerous margainalia (many cropped) in a sixteenth-century hand -- Guyon de Sardrere, seventeenth-century signature on title and colophon -- Nicolas Yemeniz, bookplate (sale, Paris, 9-31 May 1867) -- Unidentified bookplate, with device "Cum consommaverit homo, tunc incipiet" -- (from Lardanchet, 1967, 60/96).