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MONTENAY, Georgette de (1540–1581). Monumenta emblematum christianorum virtutum tum politicarum tum oeconomicarum chorum. Frankfurt: Jean Charles Unckel, 1619.
8° (180 x 115 mm). Text printed in French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Dutch, title printed within engraved border by Peter Rollos, engraved portrait of the author and extra mounted engraved portrait of the dedicatee Queen of Navarra, 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, blank leaf after each emblem. Modern brown morocco gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
Polyglot edition of this Protestant emblem book. This book was intended as an album amicorum, with a blank for entries at the end of each emblem. The work closes with sonnets written to the Queen of Navarra. The first known edition of the French text was printed in 1571 by Jean Marcorelle at Lyons. In the 1584 edition, Woeiriot's engravings were used again, with the artist's Lorraine cross erased from the copperplates. The portrait of Georgette de Montenay was not in the 1571 edition, but first appeared in the 1584 edition. Landwehr German, 445; Landwehr Romanic, 532; Praz p. 431 (note).
8° (180 x 115 mm). Text printed in French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English, and Dutch, title printed within engraved border by Peter Rollos, engraved portrait of the author and extra mounted engraved portrait of the dedicatee Queen of Navarra, 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, blank leaf after each emblem. Modern brown morocco gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
Polyglot edition of this Protestant emblem book. This book was intended as an album amicorum, with a blank for entries at the end of each emblem. The work closes with sonnets written to the Queen of Navarra. The first known edition of the French text was printed in 1571 by Jean Marcorelle at Lyons. In the 1584 edition, Woeiriot's engravings were used again, with the artist's Lorraine cross erased from the copperplates. The portrait of Georgette de Montenay was not in the 1571 edition, but first appeared in the 1584 edition. Landwehr German, 445; Landwehr Romanic, 532; Praz p. 431 (note).
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