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BERTAUD, Jean (b.1502). Encomium trium Mariarum cum earundem cultus defensione adversus Lutheranos. Paris: Josse Bade for himself and Galliot du Pré, 22 November 1529 - 15 December 1529.
3 parts in one volume, 4° (247 x 185mm). Title with type ornaments and Bade's 'Prelum ad cesianum' woodcut device [Renouard number 3]. First and third parts printed in roman letter in black ink, the second in gothic letter with typeset music in red and black. 31 woodcut illustrations, 18 full-page, some repeats, the second part with woodcut figurative and decorative borders, woodcut white-on-black initials, some criblé or historiated. First leaf of part II with the signature corrected by a small over slip. (Small repairs in the title margin, short worm track in the bottom margin of the last few gatherings, neat repairs in the margins of the last few leaves.) Full red morocco by René Aussourd, sides with blind double fillet frame, flat spine ruled in blind and lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, matching slipcase. Provenance: marginal annotation in an early hand (washed but partly legible) – Baron Paul Harth (label, Forgeot cat. 1985, no. 12).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF ‘ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS OF THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY’.
Renouard notes that this is the only illustrated book printed by Bade (I, p.70). The woodcuts in the first and third parts were probably cut at the instigation of Bertaud, while those in the second part come from a variety of sources and include those used to illustrate the Pigouchet-Vostre Horae (cf. Mortimer 298). This copy is complete with the often-lacking two leaves of verse composed on the occasion of the Chancellor of Milan’s funeral.
Brunet I, 813-814; Lacombe 384; Mortimer, Harvard French 54 (lacking the 2 unsigned leaves of verses between the second and third parts); Renouard, Badius Ascensius II, pp.187-194.
3 parts in one volume, 4° (247 x 185mm). Title with type ornaments and Bade's 'Prelum ad cesianum' woodcut device [Renouard number 3]. First and third parts printed in roman letter in black ink, the second in gothic letter with typeset music in red and black. 31 woodcut illustrations, 18 full-page, some repeats, the second part with woodcut figurative and decorative borders, woodcut white-on-black initials, some criblé or historiated. First leaf of part II with the signature corrected by a small over slip. (Small repairs in the title margin, short worm track in the bottom margin of the last few gatherings, neat repairs in the margins of the last few leaves.) Full red morocco by René Aussourd, sides with blind double fillet frame, flat spine ruled in blind and lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges, gilt turn-ins, matching slipcase. Provenance: marginal annotation in an early hand (washed but partly legible) – Baron Paul Harth (label, Forgeot cat. 1985, no. 12).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF ‘ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS OF THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY’.
Renouard notes that this is the only illustrated book printed by Bade (I, p.70). The woodcuts in the first and third parts were probably cut at the instigation of Bertaud, while those in the second part come from a variety of sources and include those used to illustrate the Pigouchet-Vostre Horae (cf. Mortimer 298). This copy is complete with the often-lacking two leaves of verse composed on the occasion of the Chancellor of Milan’s funeral.
Brunet I, 813-814; Lacombe 384; Mortimer, Harvard French 54 (lacking the 2 unsigned leaves of verses between the second and third parts); Renouard, Badius Ascensius II, pp.187-194.
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