Accession number:
PML 196064
Published:
A Lyon : A l'escu de Cologne, chez Iehan Frellon, 1547.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, 2014.
Description:
[208] p. : woodcuts ; 15 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Signatures: A-N⁸.
Printer's mark on t.-p.
Pages [5-57] are woodcuts by Holbein with French captions & French quatrains ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or Gilles Corrozet; the cut on p. [40] is signed by the block cutter, Hans Lützelburger.
First published under title, Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort.
Binding:
Gilt-tooled black morocco for Pieter Spiering, with the classmark 126 on the spine and the title Dooden dans v: H:H: along with the date 1637 on the front cover. Other Spiering 1637 bindings are described in Jan G. Van Gelder and Ingrid Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata (1985), vol. 1, pp. 200-6.
Provenance:
Presentation inscription to Guillaume Glorian dated 17 July 1681 and wax seal of the Fabrique G. Glorian. Cipher AB dated 1850 and inscription "s[anc]tae Genovefae 1735" on title-page.
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