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CORROZET, Gilles (1510-1568). Hecatomgraphie. C'est à dire les descriptions de cent figures & hystoires, contenants plusieurs appophthegmes proverbes, sentences & dictz tant des Anciens que des modernes. Paris: Denys Janot, 1541.
8o (165 x 107 mm). Architectural title-border with the Janot thistle (Renouard 483 lower portion). 100 woodcuts enclosed within ornamental borders, each with caption and verse legend and verse text on facing pages. Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Lortic. Provenance: de Lassus, Baron de La Barthe et de la Vallée de Nestès (bookplate); acquired from Librairie Rossignol, 1977.
Second illustrated edition of Corrozet's renowned emblem book, employing the same ornamental borders used by Janot in La Perrière's Le theatre des bons engins (ca 1539). The same cuts were used with the borders for four Janot editions, in 1540, 1541 and two in 1543, and without borders for a 1548 edition by Étienne Groulleau, who inherited Janot's stock. The marority of the blocks have single-line borders and figures sketched in the Italianate style introduced by Tory. Though Corrozet's name does not appear on the title, it heads the prefatory verses on A2v which note the use of the emblem book as a "model book." The first illustrated edition was published by Janot in 1540. All early illustrated editions are scarce. Brun, p.176; Mortimer French 154; Praz, p.42.
8o (165 x 107 mm). Architectural title-border with the Janot thistle (Renouard 483 lower portion). 100 woodcuts enclosed within ornamental borders, each with caption and verse legend and verse text on facing pages. Red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Lortic. Provenance: de Lassus, Baron de La Barthe et de la Vallée de Nestès (bookplate); acquired from Librairie Rossignol, 1977.
Second illustrated edition of Corrozet's renowned emblem book, employing the same ornamental borders used by Janot in La Perrière's Le theatre des bons engins (ca 1539). The same cuts were used with the borders for four Janot editions, in 1540, 1541 and two in 1543, and without borders for a 1548 edition by Étienne Groulleau, who inherited Janot's stock. The marority of the blocks have single-line borders and figures sketched in the Italianate style introduced by Tory. Though Corrozet's name does not appear on the title, it heads the prefatory verses on A2v which note the use of the emblem book as a "model book." The first illustrated edition was published by Janot in 1540. All early illustrated editions are scarce. Brun, p.176; Mortimer French 154; Praz, p.42.