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Le liure de la deablerie.

Accession number
PML 66173
Creator
Amerval, Eloy d', active 1483-1507.
Published
A Paris : Michel Le Noir, [1508]
Notes
Title from title page, leaf A1, with woodcut of hellmouth with the figures of "Lucifer," "Sathan," and "Eloy" labeled.
Imprint from verse colophon, leaf V6r: "...Limprimeur est Michel le noir / Qui a paris a son manoir / En la rue sainct Iacques en somme / A la roze blache cest homme ... Lan mil cinq cens et huytsa[n]s caulte..."
Edition in two settings, with different layout of text (including privilege), font, woodcuts, and initials (see USTC 9821 and 47267).
Signatures: A-T⁶ V⁴ X⁶: 124 leaves, leaf A6 blank.
This issue with a woodcut of 5 authors with books, leaf B1r.
PML copy without privilege; with leaf A6 (blank) bound before A1.
Description
[124] leaves : illustrations (2 woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol)
Provenance
Unidentified booklabel, initials M. G. and armorial crest with Poseidon holding a trident, no. 251 (front endleaf 1 verso); Prince d'Essling, his sale, 1845, lot 73; Baron de La Roche Lacarelle (1816-1887), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, 1888, lot 155; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mrs. Kenneth Spencer, March 1975.
Binding
Full red morocco, gilt edges, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department