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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Les emblemes ... en rime francoyse, et puis nagueres reimprime avec curieuse correction. Translated from Latin by Jean Le Fevre. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1540.
8° (164 x 102mm). Parallel text in Latin and French. Woodcut printer's device on title, another version on final recto, 113 woodcut devices by Jean or Mercure Jollat, ornamental initials. (Some waterstains, more severe towards end, some heavy marginal stains and soil marks.) Late 19th-century hard-grained green morocco panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (ex libris).
YATES THOMPSON COPY. One of two 1540 editions in French, the other without cuts, this illustrated with the same blocks by Jean Jollat as were used in the first French edition of 1536. The replacement of the solemn bâtardes type in the 1536 edition by a more readable roman is the one significant alteration. This copy 'from the Thingwall library' has the interest of being Green's collation copy. Brunet I, 148; Green 17; Landwehr Romanic, 21; cf. Mortimer/Harvard French 13; not in Praz.
8° (164 x 102mm). Parallel text in Latin and French. Woodcut printer's device on title, another version on final recto, 113 woodcut devices by Jean or Mercure Jollat, ornamental initials. (Some waterstains, more severe towards end, some heavy marginal stains and soil marks.) Late 19th-century hard-grained green morocco panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (ex libris).
YATES THOMPSON COPY. One of two 1540 editions in French, the other without cuts, this illustrated with the same blocks by Jean Jollat as were used in the first French edition of 1536. The replacement of the solemn bâtardes type in the 1536 edition by a more readable roman is the one significant alteration. This copy 'from the Thingwall library' has the interest of being Green's collation copy. Brunet I, 148; Green 17; Landwehr Romanic, 21; cf. Mortimer/Harvard French 13; not in Praz.
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