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
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
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, no. 27075, Bulletin Mensuel, no 55 (June 1902), no. 42219; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Morgand with the "Rahir Fifty," 1907.
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