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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Livret des emblemes. Translated from Latin by Jean Le Fevre (1493-1563). Paris: Christian Wechel, 1536.
8° (161 x 95mm). Latin text in italic letter, French translation in letter bâtardes on alternate pages. Wechel's Pegasus device on title and final leaf, 113 woodcuts by Jean or Mercure Jollat, woodcut initials. Red morocco gilt by S. David, sides tooled in Renaissance style with an elaborate all-over tracery pattern, gilt spine directly lettered and with repeated fleuron within variegated frame, gilt turn-ins, vellum liners, gilt edges. Provenance: Robert Hoe (book label) -- [Henry Yates Thompson] -- A.H. Bright (1912 bookplate).
YATES THOMPSON - BRIGHT COPY OF EITHER THE FIRST OR THE SECOND EDITION IN FRENCH. Mortimer establishes that Wechel published two 1536 Latin and French editions, distinguished by the setting of the title-page. In contradistinction to the edition cited by Green, this copy has the ending 'en la' in the second line of the imprint and the date reading 'M.D.xxxvi' as opposed to being in full capitals. The text as well as the title-page was reprinted. The woodcut blocks are the same as those used in Wechel's second Latin edition of 1534 with the exceptions of the Cyclops block on F2v, and the new block of the chameleon on M7v. Changes have also been made in four of the 1534 blocks by cutting portions of the design and fitting new details in. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. Brunet I, 148 (incorrect emblem count); Fairfax Murray French 8 (copy on vellum); Landwehr Romanic, 18; Mortimer/ Harvard French, 14; cf. Green 10 for the alternative 1536 French edition.
8° (161 x 95mm). Latin text in italic letter, French translation in letter bâtardes on alternate pages. Wechel's Pegasus device on title and final leaf, 113 woodcuts by Jean or Mercure Jollat, woodcut initials. Red morocco gilt by S. David, sides tooled in Renaissance style with an elaborate all-over tracery pattern, gilt spine directly lettered and with repeated fleuron within variegated frame, gilt turn-ins, vellum liners, gilt edges. Provenance: Robert Hoe (book label) -- [Henry Yates Thompson] -- A.H. Bright (1912 bookplate).
YATES THOMPSON - BRIGHT COPY OF EITHER THE FIRST OR THE SECOND EDITION IN FRENCH. Mortimer establishes that Wechel published two 1536 Latin and French editions, distinguished by the setting of the title-page. In contradistinction to the edition cited by Green, this copy has the ending 'en la' in the second line of the imprint and the date reading 'M.D.xxxvi' as opposed to being in full capitals. The text as well as the title-page was reprinted. The woodcut blocks are the same as those used in Wechel's second Latin edition of 1534 with the exceptions of the Cyclops block on F2v, and the new block of the chameleon on M7v. Changes have also been made in four of the 1534 blocks by cutting portions of the design and fitting new details in. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. Brunet I, 148 (incorrect emblem count); Fairfax Murray French 8 (copy on vellum); Landwehr Romanic, 18; Mortimer/ Harvard French, 14; cf. Green 10 for the alternative 1536 French edition.
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