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SALMON, Pierre (fl. 1396-1427). Les demandes faites par le roi Charles IV, touchant son état et le gouvernement de sa personne, avec les réponses. Edited from the manuscripts in the Royal Library, with historical notes, by Georges-Adrien Crapelet (1789-1842). Paris: Crapelet, 1833.
Large 8o (275 x 175 mm). Text PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK ON HOLLAND PAPER, one of seven copies, with 9 black-and-white plates of miniatures on wove paper; one of ten copies issued with an EXTRA SET OF THE PLATES PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS. (Light foxing in places.) Jansenist binding signed by ANTOINE BAUZONNET at foot of spine: blind-panelled red crushed morocco, gilt-lettered spine, fine green morocco doublures elaborately gold-tooled to a fanfare design, top edges gilt, (board edges slightly rubbed). Provenance: René Descamps-Scrive (bookplate, 1925 Paris sale, Part II, lot 343) -- Maurice Escoffier (bookplate).
No. 11 in Crapelet's splendid series, Collection des anciens monumens de l'histoire et de la langue françoise. The editor based his text on two manuscripts of Salmon's Dialogues in the King's library, one on paper and unillustrated, the other on vellum and finely illuminated (now BnF ms. 23279); the nine facsimile plates in this book reproduce the latter and were only issued in TEN ILLUSTRATED SETS ON VELLUM. Brunet II, 408.
The finely tooled doublures demonstrate why Antoine Bauzonnet was known as "le Maître des filets". He was the great Purgold's successor and in turn succeeded by the husband of his step-daughter, Georges Trautz. BBB Harvard 37.
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No. 11 in Crapelet's splendid series, Collection des anciens monumens de l'histoire et de la langue françoise. The editor based his text on two manuscripts of Salmon's Dialogues in the King's library, one on paper and unillustrated, the other on vellum and finely illuminated (now BnF ms. 23279); the nine facsimile plates in this book reproduce the latter and were only issued in TEN ILLUSTRATED SETS ON VELLUM. Brunet II, 408.
The finely tooled doublures demonstrate why Antoine Bauzonnet was known as "le Maître des filets". He was the great Purgold's successor and in turn succeeded by the husband of his step-daughter, Georges Trautz. BBB Harvard 37.