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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblemata. Lyons: Macé Bonhomme for Guillaume Rouillé, 1548.
8° (187 x 124mm). Title with woodcut device and border with monogram 'P.V', 201 emblems illustrated with 128 woodcuts by Pierre Eskrich, full woodcut border to every page except the 2-leaf table, several other borders signed P.V. for Pierre Vase (i.e. Eskrich). (Occasional tiny expert repairs, small hole to top edge of title.) Late 19th-century red morocco gilt, elaborate gilt blue morocco liners, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (ex libris).
THE FIRST ROUILLE EDITION AND THE FIRST TO USE THIS SERIES OF WOODCUTS. Also the first edition to use Renaissance borders to the cuts. 'The wood engravings, entirely new in 1548, with additions as they could be prepared, have served for the whole series of editions, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian, which Roville and Bonhomme issued from 1548 to 1566' (Green). By tradition, they have been attributed to Bernard Salomon, Green himself believing that the blocks of the devices and the blocks of the borders were by different hands. Today both the cuts and borders are attributed to Pierre Eskrich. The 14 trees were not given cuts in this edition. The emblems are also arranged by subject for the first time, probably by Barthélemy Aneau. Green's collation copy. Adams A-603; Brunet V, 148; Green 31 (counts 129 cuts); Landwehr Romanic, 37.
8° (187 x 124mm). Title with woodcut device and border with monogram 'P.V', 201 emblems illustrated with 128 woodcuts by Pierre Eskrich, full woodcut border to every page except the 2-leaf table, several other borders signed P.V. for Pierre Vase (i.e. Eskrich). (Occasional tiny expert repairs, small hole to top edge of title.) Late 19th-century red morocco gilt, elaborate gilt blue morocco liners, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (ex libris).
THE FIRST ROUILLE EDITION AND THE FIRST TO USE THIS SERIES OF WOODCUTS. Also the first edition to use Renaissance borders to the cuts. 'The wood engravings, entirely new in 1548, with additions as they could be prepared, have served for the whole series of editions, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian, which Roville and Bonhomme issued from 1548 to 1566' (Green). By tradition, they have been attributed to Bernard Salomon, Green himself believing that the blocks of the devices and the blocks of the borders were by different hands. Today both the cuts and borders are attributed to Pierre Eskrich. The 14 trees were not given cuts in this edition. The emblems are also arranged by subject for the first time, probably by Barthélemy Aneau. Green's collation copy. Adams A-603; Brunet V, 148; Green 31 (counts 129 cuts); Landwehr Romanic, 37.
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