Accession number:
PML 4075
Published:
Florentiae : Officina Laurentii Torrentini, mense Febrvario MDXLIX [February 1549].
Credit:
Purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.
Description:
[8], 205, [1] pages ; 33 cm (fol)
Notes:
Exhibited in Burlington Fine Arts Exh. 1891.
Binding:
16th-century French brown calf over pasteboards (35 x 23 cm), gold-tooled with interlace design painted in black and gray, attributed to Gomar Estienne (previously attributed to Claude de Picques by Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, no. 25 and Needham, Twelve Centuries), ca. 1549-56. Gilt edges. Flat back with diagonal stripe design in false panels. Golt-tooled title in central panel of front board, Grolier's "et amicorum" at bottom of front board, with his motto in the central panel of rear board.
Provenance:
Jean Grolier (1497-1565), binding; unidentified early signature, abraded (title page, not legible under UV); Samuel W. Singer (1783-1858), his sale: Sotheby's, part IV, 24 May 1860, lot 136; Jacques Techener (1802-1870), his sale: Paris, part III, 4 April 1865, lot 1575; A. Firmin Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Paris, June 1878, lot 671; Lé́on Techener (1832-1888), his sale: Paris, part II, 10 May 1887, lot 624; unidentified (Maggs?) English sale catalogue description, no. 143 (laid-in at front endleaf 1 recto); George B. De Forest, Jr. (1848-1932); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.
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