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MILLES DE SOUVIGNY, Jean (1490?-1563). Praxis criminis persequendi, elegantibus aliquot figuris illustrata. Paris: Simon de Colines, Arnould and Charles l'Angelier, 1541.
2º (300 x 196mm). Woodcut title illustration, woodcut arms of the author on the verso, 13 full-page woodcuts, floriated criblé initials throughout. (Title with small holes where inscriptions were cancelled, occasional light spotting.) Early 19th-century red diced russia, sides with a gilt roll-tooled border with cornucopia and palmettes, flat spine gilt in compartments and titled directly, gilt edges (expert small repairs at extremities). Provenance: deleted title inscription dated 1544 – another title inscription dated 1550, and light marginalia in the same hand – Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (c. 1792-1869; bookplate) -- Édouard Rahir (bookplate; his sale, Paris, 19 May 1937, lot 1491) – Henri Burton (bookplate) – Christie’s New York, 22 April 1994, lot 147.
FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK. THE RAHIR-BURTON COPY.
The work is an important analysis of the process of criminal justice, presented through the description of an imaginary murder and the subsequent trial and execution of the perpetrators.
The beautiful woodcuts have been variously attributed to Geoffroy Tory, Mercure Jollat, Jacquemin Woeiriot, and Oronce Finé; they graphically depict the crime, the arrest of the suspects, the interrogation of witnesses, and the trial, torture and final execution. This copy from the issue with the name of both publishers on the title.
Brun, pp. 48-9, 259; Brunet III, 1715; Mortimer, Harvard French 374 (second Rahir copy); F. Schreiber, Simon de Colines: an Annotated Catalogue of 225 Examples of his Press, 1520-1546 (1994), no. 158.
2º (300 x 196mm). Woodcut title illustration, woodcut arms of the author on the verso, 13 full-page woodcuts, floriated criblé initials throughout. (Title with small holes where inscriptions were cancelled, occasional light spotting.) Early 19th-century red diced russia, sides with a gilt roll-tooled border with cornucopia and palmettes, flat spine gilt in compartments and titled directly, gilt edges (expert small repairs at extremities). Provenance: deleted title inscription dated 1544 – another title inscription dated 1550, and light marginalia in the same hand – Jean-Nicolas Beaupré (c. 1792-1869; bookplate) -- Édouard Rahir (bookplate; his sale, Paris, 19 May 1937, lot 1491) – Henri Burton (bookplate) – Christie’s New York, 22 April 1994, lot 147.
FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK. THE RAHIR-BURTON COPY.
The work is an important analysis of the process of criminal justice, presented through the description of an imaginary murder and the subsequent trial and execution of the perpetrators.
The beautiful woodcuts have been variously attributed to Geoffroy Tory, Mercure Jollat, Jacquemin Woeiriot, and Oronce Finé; they graphically depict the crime, the arrest of the suspects, the interrogation of witnesses, and the trial, torture and final execution. This copy from the issue with the name of both publishers on the title.
Brun, pp. 48-9, 259; Brunet III, 1715; Mortimer, Harvard French 374 (second Rahir copy); F. Schreiber, Simon de Colines: an Annotated Catalogue of 225 Examples of his Press, 1520-1546 (1994), no. 158.
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