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BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Stultifera Navis (translated by Jacob Locher, with additions by Thomas Beccadelli). Lyons: Jacques Sacon, 28 June '1488' [1498].
Chancery 4° (182 x 131mm). Collation: a-t8 u4. 155 leaves (of 156, without final blank). Type: 1:81R. 33 lines and foliation, a few initial spaces with guide-letters. 119 woodcuts, 3 full-page, including 3 repeats. (A few leaves cropped close, but only just touching a word or headline on a few leaves, u3 strengthened, corner of h5 repaired, marginal repair to p1 just extending into text but without loss.) Modern yellow reversed leather (extremities rubbed), red morocco slipcase.
First Lyonese edition, the first known work from Sacon's press. The edition is copied nearly page for page from the Marnef edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 (GW 5064), and uses the same woodblocks, most of which had first appeared in the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French verse translation (Paris: for de Marnef and Philippi, 1497, GW 5058). (Cf. BMC VIII, pp. 150-51 for a discussion of the priority of these editions). HC 3752; GW 5063; Pellechet 2825; Polain 867; Proctor 8671; BMC VIII, 336 (IA 42173); Goff B-1093.
Chancery 4° (182 x 131mm). Collation: a-t8 u4. 155 leaves (of 156, without final blank). Type: 1:81R. 33 lines and foliation, a few initial spaces with guide-letters. 119 woodcuts, 3 full-page, including 3 repeats. (A few leaves cropped close, but only just touching a word or headline on a few leaves, u3 strengthened, corner of h5 repaired, marginal repair to p1 just extending into text but without loss.) Modern yellow reversed leather (extremities rubbed), red morocco slipcase.
First Lyonese edition, the first known work from Sacon's press. The edition is copied nearly page for page from the Marnef edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 (GW 5064), and uses the same woodblocks, most of which had first appeared in the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French verse translation (Paris: for de Marnef and Philippi, 1497, GW 5058). (Cf. BMC VIII, pp. 150-51 for a discussion of the priority of these editions). HC 3752; GW 5063; Pellechet 2825; Polain 867; Proctor 8671; BMC VIII, 336 (IA 42173); Goff B-1093.
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