Accession number:
PML 492
Published:
[Paris] : [Jean Du Pré (printer of Paris)], [approximately 1488-1489]
Description:
[54] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Du Pré's type 10:109G, with signatures stamped (from leaf a3) in 13:112G.
Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶: 54 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Transalted by Jean Le Bègue.
Printed as an appendix to a Livius in French (BMC VIII 35) and treated as part of that edition in CIBN L-189.
2 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.5 x 19.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1.
Binding:
18th/19th-century(?) English blind-tooled calf over paper boards (27 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Sanford and Clarke. Brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
De la premiere guerre punicque
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubricaiton, alternating red initials and paragraph marks, red and blue initials at book incipits. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: +E.c. 114 (front endleaf 3 recto) and cut-out prints, including armorial (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 191 to Rodd for £0.7.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and notes on the type and purchase date(?): K.H. 17:3:96 (front endleaf 1 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: w/wm/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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