Accession number
PML 1096-98
Published
Nouvelleme[n]t Imprime a Paris : [Pour Gilles de Gourmont], 1531[-32]
Notes
Apparently printed in two establishments, as there is a definite change in type and details of format after sig. tt1 of v. 3. For information about the various printers and publishers connected with this edition, cf. Fairfax Murray, Brunet and the British museum catalogue.
Colophon of v. 6 dated 1532.
Illustrations: one full-page woodcut, or prelim. 1. 2b of v. 5, copied from the "king and supplicant" cut used in Verard's 1493 edition of the Chroniques de St. Denis.--cf. reproduction in Claudin, II, 456. The publisher's historiated woodcut border repeated on each t.p. Historiated, foliated, ornamental, and a few calligraphic initials in several sizes.
Publisher's name from t.p. border. Vol. 3 has the address of the bookseller Philippe Le Noir in the imprint, v. 4 that of Jean Petit.
Second edition.
See further in Brunet suppl., II, 197 and Fairfax Murray 441.
Vol. 2-6 have title: ...Anciennes Cronicques Dangleterre...
Colophon of v. 6 dated 1532.
Illustrations: one full-page woodcut, or prelim. 1. 2b of v. 5, copied from the "king and supplicant" cut used in Verard's 1493 edition of the Chroniques de St. Denis.--cf. reproduction in Claudin, II, 456. The publisher's historiated woodcut border repeated on each t.p. Historiated, foliated, ornamental, and a few calligraphic initials in several sizes.
Publisher's name from t.p. border. Vol. 3 has the address of the bookseller Philippe Le Noir in the imprint, v. 4 that of Jean Petit.
Second edition.
See further in Brunet suppl., II, 197 and Fairfax Murray 441.
Vol. 2-6 have title: ...Anciennes Cronicques Dangleterre...
Description
6 parts in 3 v. : ill. ; (small fol.)
Provenance
Kerr no. 25 ; Heber's copy?
Binding
Calf.
Classification
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