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MONTENAY, Georgette de (1540-1581). Emblematum christianorum centuria. Cent emblemes chrestiens. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1584.
8° (192 x 147 mm).Text in Latin and French. Etched portrait of the author and 100 emblematic etchings by Pierre Woeiriot. With final blank F4. (Occasional spots.) Purple morocco in Jansenist style by Lortic fils, gilt spine-lettering and inner dentelles, gilt edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (1894 bookplate).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, following the Lyons 1571 edition in French. This was the first religious emblem book to make use of love emblems (see Praz p. 44), and the first protestant emblem book. The dedicatee is Jeanne D'Albret, Queen of Navarre, seen in the first emblem in the act of building a temple, with the motto 'Sapiens mulier aedificat domus'. Adams M-1715; Brunet III, 1853; Landwehr German 443; Landwehr Romanic 530; Praz, p. 431; Vinet 849; cf. Mortimer/Harvard French 380.
8° (192 x 147 mm).Text in Latin and French. Etched portrait of the author and 100 emblematic etchings by Pierre Woeiriot. With final blank F4. (Occasional spots.) Purple morocco in Jansenist style by Lortic fils, gilt spine-lettering and inner dentelles, gilt edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (1894 bookplate).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, following the Lyons 1571 edition in French. This was the first religious emblem book to make use of love emblems (see Praz p. 44), and the first protestant emblem book. The dedicatee is Jeanne D'Albret, Queen of Navarre, seen in the first emblem in the act of building a temple, with the motto 'Sapiens mulier aedificat domus'. Adams M-1715; Brunet III, 1853; Landwehr German 443; Landwehr Romanic 530; Praz, p. 431; Vinet 849; cf. Mortimer/Harvard French 380.
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