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[ANEAU, Barthélemy (1505?-1561)]. De la propriete et nature d'aucuns oyseaux Avec le sens moral… Par un scavant Philosophe. Paris: Nicolas Bonfons, 1584.
16° (110 x 73mm). Woodcut title surround, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and opening initial to preface, 55 woodcuts of birds (50 x 33mm), one at head of each page of verse. (Some upper margins close cut.) Red morocco gilt by Capé, sides with inner compartment enclosing the word ‘Paulatim’ and outer frame of gilt and blind fillets, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. Provenance: Luzarche (pencil note) – Henri Gallice (1853-1930; bookplate) – Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942; bookplate).
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE EDITION OF THIS CHARMING ILLUSTRATED BOOK.
With regards to its content, this book could equally be attributed to Guillaume Guéroult, though in fact it remained anonymous. In the second half of the 16th century the genre of moralising and emblematic texts in verse became attached to birds and animals in an almost encyclopaedic manner, causing great bibliographical complexities since titles of similar publications may differ considerably, even though the illustrations remain the same, having been used by various printers for a wide range of editions. This is particularly true of the works of Barthélemy Aneau and Guillaume Guéroult (died c. 1570) which were so similar in subject that they were sometimes bound or even printed together. This often made it difficult to attribute the texts correctly, particularly if printers altered the original texts and titles for their own purposes and then published them anonymously. The present text with this particular title was first printed in Lyons in 1563 by Jean d'Ogerolles; according to USTC, only one copy survives in a public institution, in the BnF (Rés. P-Z-2515 [5]). The present edition uses the same woodcuts as the 1563 edition. Each cut is followed by eight lines of verse describing the bird illustrated, then a further eight lines providing the moral sense and interpretation.
Jean-Luc Nyon, Catalogue des Livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de la Vallière, part 2, vol. 4, Paris 1788, p. 217, no. 14546; Chatelain, Livres d'emblèmes et de devises, p. 80 no. 19 and 20 (on Guéroult); USTC no. 75183; Arsenal Verse no. 1038; USTC records only one copy, in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
16° (110 x 73mm). Woodcut title surround, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and opening initial to preface, 55 woodcuts of birds (50 x 33mm), one at head of each page of verse. (Some upper margins close cut.) Red morocco gilt by Capé, sides with inner compartment enclosing the word ‘Paulatim’ and outer frame of gilt and blind fillets, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. Provenance: Luzarche (pencil note) – Henri Gallice (1853-1930; bookplate) – Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942; bookplate).
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE EDITION OF THIS CHARMING ILLUSTRATED BOOK.
With regards to its content, this book could equally be attributed to Guillaume Guéroult, though in fact it remained anonymous. In the second half of the 16th century the genre of moralising and emblematic texts in verse became attached to birds and animals in an almost encyclopaedic manner, causing great bibliographical complexities since titles of similar publications may differ considerably, even though the illustrations remain the same, having been used by various printers for a wide range of editions. This is particularly true of the works of Barthélemy Aneau and Guillaume Guéroult (died c. 1570) which were so similar in subject that they were sometimes bound or even printed together. This often made it difficult to attribute the texts correctly, particularly if printers altered the original texts and titles for their own purposes and then published them anonymously. The present text with this particular title was first printed in Lyons in 1563 by Jean d'Ogerolles; according to USTC, only one copy survives in a public institution, in the BnF (Rés. P-Z-2515 [5]). The present edition uses the same woodcuts as the 1563 edition. Each cut is followed by eight lines of verse describing the bird illustrated, then a further eight lines providing the moral sense and interpretation.
Jean-Luc Nyon, Catalogue des Livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de la Vallière, part 2, vol. 4, Paris 1788, p. 217, no. 14546; Chatelain, Livres d'emblèmes et de devises, p. 80 no. 19 and 20 (on Guéroult); USTC no. 75183; Arsenal Verse no. 1038; USTC records only one copy, in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
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