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GREGORY I, Saint, Pope (540-604). Le dialogue monsr. Sainct gregoyre: Translate de latin en françois. Paris: Antoine Verard, 20 March 1509.
4o (203 x 140 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: a-z6 &6 A6 B-C4. 158 leaves. 28 lines, head-line and foliation, single column. Lettres bâtardes. Title-page with xylographic gothic lettering and large woodcut initial capital "L" (incorporating a grotesque head of a man at bottom, at the top the head of a spike-headed bird), letters of title. Verso of title with large woodcut of a crowned Saint Gregory (117 x 90 mm) holding an open book in one hand, in the other a staff with crucifix, on the right a large banderole with xylographic text. Woodcut initial capitals from several different sets and styles, ranging in height from 3 to 6 lines, some historiated. (Lower margin of title with small hole from vellum flaw, marginal vellum flaws in leaves c4, f6, g2, g4, p6, early repair to flaw at g2). Modern brown morocco gilt, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled borders, unlettered spine gilt- and blind-tooled, edges gilt, blind-tooled turn-ins, vellum endleaves, stamp-signed by Gustav Medders of Stockholm (front hinge very slightly cracked). Provenance: Robert Hoe (morocco bookplate, sale AAA, 24 April 1911, lot 1545) -- Pencilled note "Perfect Bernard Quaritch" on rear pastedown -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, the work of an unknown translator. ONE OF THREE RECORDED COPIES, ONE OF TWO ON VELLUM. B. Moreau, Éditions Parisiennes 1509:83 (recording copies in the BN and at Cambrai); Van Praet, Bibliothèque du Roi, vol.1, no.391 (vellum, initials colored); Macfarlane, no.96.
4o (203 x 140 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: a-z6 &6 A6 B-C4. 158 leaves. 28 lines, head-line and foliation, single column. Lettres bâtardes. Title-page with xylographic gothic lettering and large woodcut initial capital "L" (incorporating a grotesque head of a man at bottom, at the top the head of a spike-headed bird), letters of title. Verso of title with large woodcut of a crowned Saint Gregory (117 x 90 mm) holding an open book in one hand, in the other a staff with crucifix, on the right a large banderole with xylographic text. Woodcut initial capitals from several different sets and styles, ranging in height from 3 to 6 lines, some historiated. (Lower margin of title with small hole from vellum flaw, marginal vellum flaws in leaves c4, f6, g2, g4, p6, early repair to flaw at g2). Modern brown morocco gilt, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled borders, unlettered spine gilt- and blind-tooled, edges gilt, blind-tooled turn-ins, vellum endleaves, stamp-signed by Gustav Medders of Stockholm (front hinge very slightly cracked). Provenance: Robert Hoe (morocco bookplate, sale AAA, 24 April 1911, lot 1545) -- Pencilled note "Perfect Bernard Quaritch" on rear pastedown -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, the work of an unknown translator. ONE OF THREE RECORDED COPIES, ONE OF TWO ON VELLUM. B. Moreau, Éditions Parisiennes 1509:83 (recording copies in the BN and at Cambrai); Van Praet, Bibliothèque du Roi, vol.1, no.391 (vellum, initials colored); Macfarlane, no.96.