Accession number:
PML 15442
Published:
Lugduni : [printer not identified], M. D. XLVIII [1548].
Description:
160 leaves (22 lines) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Printed in red and black.
Full-page woodcuts signed IF, for Jacques Le Fevre or Jakob Faber. Borders signed PV, identified as Pierre Vase, i.e. Pierre Eskrich, active in Lyon.
Printing attributed to Macé Bonhomme for Guillaume Rouillé in BnF copy and USTC.
Not in Alès or Lacombe.
Binding:
16th-century French (Lyon?) brown calf, gold tooled in an interlace design partly painted red, and gold-tooled name "Damoyselle Loyse Debillion" on covers; rebacked. Gilt edges.
Provenance:
Louise de Billon, binding with name inscribed "Demoyselle Loyse Debillion"; Librairie Damascène Morgand (Rahir et Cie), no. 27075, Bulletin Mensuel, no 55 (June 1902), no. 42219; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Édouard Rahir (with the "Rahir Fifty"), May 1907.
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